Full Description
With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost. Within the framework of an introduction that lays out the conceptual terminology used to describe that shifting ideological landscape, the authors analyze both the social groups appearing in the films and the relations of film directors and other film makers to state censorship and ideological control.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I
Theoretical and Historical Introduction
1. Social Reality and Ideology in Interaction
2. State, Ideology, and Film in Soviet History
PART II
Soviet Movies in the Revolutionary Period (1918-1928): Cordial Acceptance of Official Ideology
3. Soviet Movies in the Aftermath of the October Revolution: The Civil War
4. The Partial Restoration of Capitalism (1921-1929)
PART III
Movies During Stalin's Time: Total Submission to the Official Ideology
5. Stalin and Soviet Movies
6. Industrialization and Collectivization (1929-1934)
7. Time of Mass Terror (1934-1941)
8. The Great Patriotic War
9. Stalin's Postwar Years
PART IV
The Game with Official Ideology
10. Movies during the First Thaw (1954-1968): Timid Challenges to Official Ideology
11. Movies in the Period of Conservatism (1968-1985):
The Use of Diversified Official Ideology for Social Critique
PARTV
Soviet Cinematographers Reject Official Ideology:
Cinema during the Last Years of the Soviet Empire
12. The First Years of Freedom: The Beginning of the Offensive against Official Ideology
13. Movie Heroes 1986-1989
14. Total Freedom from Totalitarianism and Its Ideology
15. Russian Movies After the Fall of the Empire
References Illustrations Filmography Director List Index
