Drawing the iron curtain : Jews and the golden age of Soviet animation

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Drawing the iron curtain : Jews and the golden age of Soviet animation

Maya Balakirsky Katz

Rutgers University Press, 2018, c2016

  • : pbk.

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Filmography: p. 271-275

Description based on 2nd printing, 2018

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In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm brought together Jewish creative personnel from every corner of the Soviet Union and served as an unlikely haven for dissidents who were banned from working in other industries. Surveying a wide range of Soviet animation produced between 1919 and 1989, from cutting-edge art films like Tale of Tales to cartoons featuring "Soviet Mickey Mouse" Cheburashka, she finds that these works played a key role in articulating a cosmopolitan sensibility and a multicultural vision for the Soviet Union. Furthermore, she considers how Jewish filmmakers used animation to depict distinctive elements of their heritage and ethnic identity, whether producing films about the Holocaust or using fellow Jews as models for character drawings. Providing a copiously illustrated introduction to many of Soyuzmultfilm's key artistic achievements, while revealing the tumultuous social and political conditions in which these films were produced, Drawing the Iron Curtain has something to offer animation fans and students of Cold War history alike.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Puppeteering a Self in the Soviet Union1 Behind the Scenes: Jews and the Studio System, 1919-19892 Black and White: Race in Soviet Animation3 The Brumberg Sisters: The Fairy Grandmothers of Soviet Animation4 Big City Jews: Setting and Censoring the Modern Fairytale5 Tropical Russian Bears: Cheburashka's Jewish Roots6 The Pioneer's Violin: Animating the Soviet Holocaust7 Cartoon Cosmopolitans: Drawing Jews into Soviet Culture8 Tale of Tales: The Rise of the Jewish Auteur Director Conclusion: Tell-Tale Signs and Soviet Jewish Animation Notes Glossary Filmography Index

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