Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History

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by Evgeny Dobrenko

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Russia / USSR

Keywords

USSR, Soviet cinema, ideology

Publishing date

2008

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 320 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7486-3445-3

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Book Presentation:
'This is a major study of the place of Soviet film within the Soviet cultural system.' Jeff Brooks, The Johns Hopkins University

This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history. Cinema's role in the legitimization of Stalinism and the production of a new Soviet identity was enormous. Both Lenin and Stalin saw in this 'most important of arts' the most effective form of propaganda and 'organisation of the masses'. By examining the works of the greatest Soviet filmmakers of the Stalin era - Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler - the author explores the role of the cinema in the formation of the Soviet political imagination.

Key Features
• The first study of Stalinist cinema, which fills a gap in the history of Soviet film.
• Covers the works of great Soviet film directors.
• Focuses on Stalinist political imagination, one of the most understudied aspects of Stalinism.

About the Author:
Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor at the University of Sheffield

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press