Movies for Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s

ISBN-13: 9780521466325 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 296 str.

Denise J. Youngblood

Opis

This book presents a pathbreaking study of Soviet popular cinema in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood focuses on commercial directors, acting genres, box office hits and audience responses to these films and their stars. She also examines the role of foreign films and the governmental and industrial circumstances underlying filmmaking practices of the era. The author demonstrates that during the first decade after the revolution, Soviet cinema was dominated by "bourgeois" directors and middle class tastes and was greatly influenced by Western and pre-revolutionary film cultures.

Recenzje

'[Movies for the masses] is often provocative and stimulating. It is also well written, very readable and has a style that engages both the reader's attention and the intellect … It provides a wealth of statistical information … and will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers from politics, film and cultural studies … [It] is a 'good read' and you leave it knowing more about the period, as well as having your own arguments 'honed' by the new evidence and opinions provided.' Roger Powell, Drama

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Contexts: I. A historical overview 'from below'; 2. The entertainment or enlightenment debate; 3. The inostranshchina in Soviet cinema; Part II. Practice: 4. Genres and hits; 5. Images and stars; 6. Iakov Protazanov, the 'Russian Griffith'; Part III. Alternatives: 7. Boris Barnet, Soviet actor/Soviet director; 8. Fridrikh Ermler and the social problem film; 9. For workers and peasants only - factory and tractor films; Conclusion.