The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema

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ISBN: 9780415078191 | 0415078199
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Copyright: 9/16/1992

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The Red Screenis unique because it encompasses seventy years of cinema history from the point of view of twenty scholars. Significant moments are highlighted in chronological order. The result is a challenging montage of detailed "close-ups" which will provide the reader with a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of Soviet cinema.

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Introduction an Interpretive Survey	p. 1
From Potemkin to the Elbe	p. 17
Government Policies and Practical Necessities in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s	p. 19
Ideology and Popular Culture in Soviet Cinema: the Kiss of Mary Pickford	p. 42
Cinema as Social Criticism: the Early Films of Fridrikh Ermler	p. 66
Cinematic Abstraction as a Means of Conveying Ideological Messages in the Man with the Movie Camera	p. 90
The Kinetic Icon and the Work of Mourning: Prolegomena to the Analysis of a Textual System	p. 113
Mr Kuleshov in the Land of the Modernists	p. 132
Films of the Second World War	p. 148
From the Thaw to the New Model	p. 173
The New Wave in Soviet Cinema	p. 175
The War and Kozin Tsev's Films Hamlet and King Lear	p. 193
The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Cinema	p. 211
Russian Nationalist Themes in Soviet Film of the 1970s	p. 231
Socialist Realism and American Genre Film: the Mixing of Codes in Jazzman	p. 249
Notes	p. 263
Art and Propaganda in the Soviet Union, 1980-5	p. 264
Alexei German, or the Form of Courage	p. 275
Scarecrow and Kindergarten: a Critical Analysis and Comparison	p. 283
The Cinema of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian Soviet Republics	p. 291
Historical Time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Kirghiz Cinema	p. 303
Does a Film Writing of History Exist? the Case of the Soviet Union	p. 315
The Anthill in the Year of the Dragon	p. 322
With Perestroika, Without Tarkovsky	p. 331
Notes on Contributors	p. 340
Index	p. 344
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