Film And Television Genres Of The Late Soviet Era

Author : Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501324086

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Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era by Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova Pdf

Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated conservative consensus while films manifested symptoms of ideological and social crises. The book examines the genres of state-sponsored epic films, police procedural, comedy and melodrama, and outlines how television gradually emerged as the major form of Russo-Soviet popular culture. Through close analysis of well-known film classics of the period as well as less familiar films and television series, this groundbreaking work helps to deconstruct the myth of this era as a time of cultural and economic stagnation and also helps us to understand the persistence of this myth in the collective memory of Putin-era Russia. This monograph is the first book-length English-language study of film and television genres of the late Soviet era.

Author : Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501324093

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Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era by Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova Pdf

Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated conservative consensus while films manifested symptoms of ideological and social crises. The book examines the genres of state-sponsored epic films, police procedural, comedy and melodrama, and outlines how television gradually emerged as the major form of Russo-Soviet popular culture. Through close analysis of well-known film classics of the period as well as less familiar films and television series, this groundbreaking work helps to deconstruct the myth of this era as a time of cultural and economic stagnation and also helps us to understand the persistence of this myth in the collective memory of Putin-era Russia. This monograph is the first book-length English-language study of film and television genres of the late Soviet era.

Author : Marina Balina,Larissa Rudova,Anastasia Kostetskaya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000780673

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Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood by Marina Balina,Larissa Rudova,Anastasia Kostetskaya Pdf

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays on childhood experience. The volume offers new critical approaches to Russian and Soviet childhood at the intersection of philosophy, literary criticism, film/visual studies, and history. Pedagogical ideas and practices, and the ideological and political underpinnings of the experience of growing up in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and Putin’s contemporary Russia are central venues of analysis. Toward the goal of constructing the "multimedial childhood text," the contributors tackle issues of happiness and trauma associated with childhood and foreground its fluidity and instability in the Russian context. The volume further examines practices of reading childhood: as nostalgic text, documentary evidence, and historic mythology. Considering Russian childhood as historical documentation or fictional narrative, as an object of material culture, and as embodied in different media (periodicals, visual culture, and cinema), the volume intends to both problematize but also elucidate the relationship between childhood, history, and various modes of narrativity.

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798887191294

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"Singing a Different Tune" by Helena Goscilo Pdf

A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migration resulted in a barrage of Polish screen musicals that relied on the country’s famous cabaret stars, while in the Soviet Union it inspired the audience-pleasing kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Pyr’ev and their urban counterpart, directed by Grigorii Aleksandrov. Like Stalin, Slavic moviegoers delectated tuneful melodies, mobile bodies in choreographed dance numbers, colorful costumes, and the notion that “all’s well that ends well.” Yet Slavic versions of the musical elaborated scenarios that differed from the Hollywood model. This volume examines the vagaries of this genre in both countries, from its early instantiations to its contemporary variations almost a century after its dramatic birth.

Author : Masha Salazkina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520400764

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Romancing Yesenia by Masha Salazkina Pdf

One of the Best Scholarly Books of 2023, The Chronicle of Higher Education A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book follows the production, transnational circulation, and reception of the highest grossing film in the history of Soviet exhibition, the 1971 Mexican romance Yesenia. The film adaptation of a telenovela based on a wildly popular graphic novel set during the Second Franco-Mexican War became a surprise hit in the USSR, selling more than ninety million tickets in the first year of its Soviet release alone. Drawing on years of archival research, renowned film scholar Masha Salazkina takes Yesenia’s unprecedented popularity as an entry point into a wide-ranging exploration of the cultures of Mexico and the Soviet Union in the 1970s and of the ways in which popular culture circulated globally. Paying particular attention to the shifting landscape of sexual politics, Romancing "Yesenia" argues for the enduring importance and ideological ambiguities of melodramatic forms in global popular media.

Author : Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova,Rimgaila Salys
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781644696460

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Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition by Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova,Rimgaila Salys Pdf

Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television. Focusing on critical debates and the most significant TV series of the past two decades, the volume’s contributors—the leading US and European scholars studying Russian television, as well as the leading Russian TV producers and directors—focus on three major issues: Russian television’s transition to digital post-broadcast economy, which redefined the media environment; Russian television’s integration into global television markets and their genre systems; and major changes in the representation of gender and sexuality on Russian television.

Author : Marina Rojavin,Tim Harte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000378276

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Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s by Marina Rojavin,Tim Harte Pdf

This book explores a new character archetype that permeated Soviet film during what became known as the era of Stagnation, a stark period of loneliness, disappointment, and individual despair. This new type of character was neither negative nor positive, but nevertheless systematically undermined Soviet norms of behaviour, hairstyle, dress, lifestyle, and perspective, in stark contrast to Socialist Realism’s traditional, positive hero who fought for Soviet values and who vanquished the enemies of socialism. The book discusses a wide range of films from the period, showing how the new antiheroic archetype of Stagnation resonated through a multitude of characters, mostly male, and vividly reflected the realities of Soviet life. The book thereby provides great insight into the lives, outlook, and psychology of citizens in the late Soviet period.

Author : Anna Lawton
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521388147

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Kinoglasnost by Anna Lawton Pdf

An examination of soviet cinema under Glasnost and Perestrokïa.

Author : Mira Liehm,Antonín J. Liehm
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520041283

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The Most Important Art by Mira Liehm,Antonín J. Liehm Pdf

Author : Christine Elaine Evans
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300208481

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Between Truth and Time by Christine Elaine Evans Pdf

CHAPTER SIX: "KVN Is an Honest Game": Game Shows and the Problem of Authority -- CHAPTER SEVEN: A Dress Rehearsal for Life: Artloto and What? Where? When? -- Epilogue: The Origins of Central Television's Perestroika -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Author : I︠U︡riĭ Voront︠s︡ov,Igorʹ Antonovich Rachuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038836016

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The Phenomenon of the Soviet Cinema by I︠U︡riĭ Voront︠s︡ov,Igorʹ Antonovich Rachuk Pdf

Author : Joshua Malitsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781119116301

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A Companion to Documentary Film History by Joshua Malitsky Pdf

This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading historians in the field In a contemporary media culture suffused with competing truth claims, documentary media have become one of the most significant means through which we think in depth about the past. The most rigorous collection of essays on nonfiction film and media history and historiography currently available, A Companion to Documentary Film History offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in documentary, and of documentary's engagement with historical and contemporary topics, debates, and themes. The Companion's twenty original essays by prominent nonfiction film and media historians challenge prevalent conceptions of what documentary is and was, and explore its growth, development, and function over time. The authors provide fresh insights on the mode's reception, geographies, authorship, multimedia contexts, and movements, and address documentary's many aesthetic, industrial, historiographical, and social dimensions. This authoritative volume: Offers both historical specificity and conceptual flexibility in approaching nonfiction and documentary media Explores documentary's multiple, complex geographic and geopolitical frameworks Covers a diversity of national and historical contexts, including Revolution-era Soviet Union, post-World War Two Canada and Europe, and contemporary China Establishes new connections and interpretive contexts for key individual films and film movements, using new primary sources Interrogates established assumptions about documentary authorship, audiences, and documentary's historical connection to other media practices. A Companion to Documentary Film History is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses covering documentary or nonfiction film and media, an excellent supplement for courses on national or regional media histories, and an important new resource for all film and media studies scholars, particularly those in nonfiction media.

Author : Daniel J. Goulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015014885274

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Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by Daniel J. Goulding Pdf

Author : Helena Goscilo,Yana Hashamova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fathers and sons in motion pictures
ISBN : PSU:000067784554

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Cinepaternity by Helena Goscilo,Yana Hashamova Pdf

This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling the paternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds are repeatedly strained by the pressure of redefining an embattled masculinity in a shifting political landscape.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783204793

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Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 by Birgit Beumers Pdf

Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in the region, including Cold War spy movies and science-fiction films; blockbusters and horror films; remakes and adventure films; and chernukha films and serials. Introductory essays establish key aspects of these genres, and directors’ biographies provide the background for the key players. Building on the work of its predecessor, which explored cinema from the time of the tsars to the Putin era, this book will be warmly received by the serious film scholar as well as all those who love Russian cinema. Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 is an essential companion to the filmic legacy of one of the world’s most storied countries.