Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History
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- ISBN 9780748634453
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history, the conversion of the present and experience into history, mechanisms of transfer, and what is located between history and the past. The representation of history is always the representation of power. The institution of legitimization and the mechanism for the production of identity, history is the past, constructed and served by the authorities who are attempting to curtail the experience by packaging it into a literary narrative and new visual imagery. Cinema’s role in the legitimization of Stalinism and the production of a new Soviet identity was enormous. Both Lenin and Stalin saw in this ‘most important of arts’ the most effective form of propaganda and ‘organisation of the masses’. By examining the works of the greatest Soviet filmmakers of the Stalin era – Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler, Mark Donskoi, Mikhail Romm – the author explores the role of the cinema in the formation of the Soviet political imagination.Key Features*The first study of Stalinist cinema, which fills a gap in the history of Soviet film.*Covers the works of great Soviet film directors.*Focuses on Stalinist political imagination, one of the most understudied aspects of Stalinism.
Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Venice. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-five books, and has published more than 300 articles and essays on Soviet cultural and intellectual history, literature, film, visual arts, architecture, photography, media and music, Socialist Realism, and critical theory, which between them have been translated into ten languages. His books include the monographs State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture (OUP, 2022), Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics (Yale UP, 2020) and Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution (Edinburgh UP, 2008, as well as the edited volumes The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (with Marina Balina; CUP, 2011), Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style (with Marina Balina; London: Anthem Press, 2009) and Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917–1953 (with Katerina Clark; Yale UP, 2007, among others.
