The politics of the Soviet cinema, 1917-1929
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The politics of the Soviet cinema, 1917-1929
(International studies)
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c1979
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Chiba
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
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Note
"First published 1979, this degitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--Backcover
Bibliography: p. 184-208
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Much has been written about Soviet literature and its political significance in the years following the October Revolution, but little has been written about the cinema in the same context. And yet in 1922 Lenin said, 'Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.' What did he mean? This book looks at the Soviet cinema in its formative period from the political point of view, examining both the attitude of the authorities towards the cinema and the actual use to which the cinema was put. It demonstrates how, even at the height of the 'Golden Era of the Soviet film', the Bolsheviks repeatedly failed to organise the cinema successfully as an effective propaganda weapon. The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties against which its most famous films can be re-examined.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration
- Abbreviations
- 1. The pre-history of the Soviet cinema
- 2. The Bolsheviks, propaganda and the cinema
- 3. Revolution and Civil War
- 4. The disorganisation of organisation: the early twenties
- 5. The organisation of disorganisation: the later twenties
- 6. The Party takes control
- 7. Theory and film
- 8. Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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