The cinema of Russia and the former Soviet Union

Authors:Birgit Beumers, Бодров, Сергей / Sergeĭ Bodrov

Summary:"The cinema of the Russia and the former Soviet Union ranges from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It offers an insight into the development of Soviet film, from 'the most important of all arts' as a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era, from the rise of its 'dissident' art-house cinema in the 1960s through the glasnost era with its broken taboos to recent Russian blockbusters. Films have been chosen to represent both the classics of Russian and Soviet cinema as well as those films that had a more localised success and remain to date part of Russia's cultural reference system. The volume also covers a range of national film industries of the former Soviet Union in chapters on the greatest films and directors of Ukrainian, Kazakh, Georgian and Armenian cinematography. Films discussed include The Strike (1925), Earth (1930), Ivan's Childhood (1962), Brother (1997) and Russian Ark (2002)."--Jacket

Print Book, English, 2007

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Publisher: Wallflower Press, London, 2007

Series:

24 frames

Genre:Aufsatzsammlung

Physical Description:xvi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9781904764984, 9781904764991, 1904764983, 1904764991

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:123112007

Subjects:

Aufsatzsammlung