Manufacturing truth : the documentary moment in early Soviet culture
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian (Author)
"The Bolshevik Revolution uprooted not only the social and political systems of the Russian Empire, but existing artistic institutions and traditions as well. Following the revolution, Soviet artists working in all different media had to respond to the urgent problem of how to make art relevant, even essential, to the revolutionary project undertaken by the Bolshevik Party. Focusing on the years 1921-1934, Manufacturing Truth explores the great upsurge in documentary methods and approaches in the arts and reveals how the documentary impulse influenced the development of Stalinist culture."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2009
Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, ©2009
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780875803890, 087580389X
217263479
Authors as engineers : the documentary moment
Operative mode : Sergei Tretiakov's art of fact
Technological mode : Dziga Vertov and kino-communication
Realist mode : Maksim Gorky, the truth, and the collective
Ironic mode : Mikhail Zoshchenko's reconstruction of the reader
A new documentary moment?