Not According to Plan

Filmmaking Under Stalin

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by Maria Belodubrovskaya

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Russia / USSR

Keywords

USSR, Soviet cinema, propaganda, ideology

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 266 pages
5 ¾ x 9 inches (14.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5017-5202-5

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Book Presentation:
In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a "mighty instrument of mass agitation and propaganda" and strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors.

About the Author:
Maria Belodubrovskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

See the publisher website: Cornell University Press