Post-revolution nonfiction film : building the Soviet and Cuban nations

Author(s)

• Malitsky, Joshua

Bibliographic Information

Post-revolution nonfiction film : building the Soviet and Cuban nations

Joshua Malitsky

（New directions in national cinemas）

Indiana University Press, c2013

• : pbk

Note

Filmography: p. [259]-265

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize society as a whole. Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film not only presents a critical historical view of the politics, rhetoric, and aesthetics shaping post-revolution Soviet and Cuban culture but also provides a framework for understanding the larger political and cultural implications of documentary and nonfiction film.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Revolutionary Rupture and National Stability Part 1 2. Kino-Nedelia, Early Documentary, and the Performance of a New Collective, 1917-1921 3. A Cinema Looking For People: The Individual and the Collective in Immediate Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nonfiction Film Part 2 4. The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927 5. (Non)Alignments and the New Revolutionary Man Part 3 6. Esfir Shub, Factography, and the New Documentary Historiography 7. The Object of Revolutionary History: Santiago Alvarez' Commemorative Newsreels and Chronicle Documentaries, 1972-1974 Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BC18233903
• ISBN:
  • 9780253007667
• LCCN: 2012037385
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington, Ind.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 273 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1995.9.D6
  • DC23 : 070.1/80947
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Documentary films -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
  • LCSH : Documentary films -- Political aspects -- Cuba
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88969334