Moscow Believes In Tears

Author : Louis Menashe
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780984583225

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Moscow Believes in Tears by Louis Menashe Pdf

This unique collection of writings and interviews highlights the important role that cinema can play for understanding Russian history, politics, culture and society in all phases-Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet. "This is the book for the Russian movie aficionado - personal, pointed, funny, frank and full of all kinds of inside stories and political folk tales. It is a fascinating window on Soviet/Russian pop culture that only a cultural Marco Polo and fanatical movie-goer like Louis Menashe would even dare attempt."-Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Russians and The New Russians"Menashe combines an encyclopedic knowledge of Russian history and society of the past 50 years with a broad-ranging and sensitive eye for cinematic meaning and detail."-Anthony Anemone, The New School University"This sparkling collection of film reviews, essays and interviews with filmmakers is a cultural history of Russia over the past 25 years. Highly recommended to everyone interested in Russia and the movies."-Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont, and author of Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds."A great national cinema is explored in its myriad colors and textures. Not a traditional history, the book is an archive of insights captured across years of passionate viewing."-Jerry W. Carlson, The City College and Graduate Center CUNY, host of the popular program, "City Cinematheque.""Menashe allows us to see both Russia's present and her past through his crisp, clear and fresh lens of a true expert who loves the country and its films, but always remains critical enough to see their flaws and merits."-Birgit Beumers, University of Bristol

Author : Barbara Armonas,Algirdas L. Nasvytis
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lippincott
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Forced labor
ISBN : UCAL:$B194418

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Leave Your Tears in Moscow by Barbara Armonas,Algirdas L. Nasvytis Pdf

Author's experiences from 1940 to 1960, from her detention in her native Lithuania as her American husband left for America, until her release through a special appeal to Mr. Khrushchev.

Author : I︠U︡riĭ Luzhkov,Mark Wukas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Moscow (Russia)
ISBN : 0965346404

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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears by I︠U︡riĭ Luzhkov,Mark Wukas Pdf

Author : Andrew Horton,Michael Brashinsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0691019207

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The Zero Hour by Andrew Horton,Michael Brashinsky Pdf

This study of the rapid changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985 examines the response of filmmakers faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic break-up of the Soviet Union.

Author : Katerina Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674062894

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Moscow, the Fourth Rome by Katerina Clark Pdf

In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today-transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764983

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The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union by Birgit Beumers Pdf

This volume explores the cinema of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, ranging from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It offers an insight into the development of Soviet film, from 'the most important of all arts' as a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era, from the rise of its 'dissident' art-house cinema in the 1960s through the glasnost era with its broken taboos to recent Russian blockbusters. Films have been chosen to represent both the classics of Russian and Soviet cinema as well as those films that had a more localised success and remain to date part of Russia's cultural reference system. The volume also covers a range of national film industries of the former Soviet Union in chapters on the greatest films and directors of Ukrainian, Kazakh, Georgian and Armenian cinematography. Films discussed include Strike (1925), Earth (1930), Ivan's Childhood (1962), Mother and Son (1997) and Brother (1997).

Author : Marko Dumančić
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487531850

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Men Out of Focus by Marko Dumančić Pdf

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.

Author : Robert (Robert D.) English,Jonathan J. Halperin
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412830354

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The Other Side by Robert (Robert D.) English,Jonathan J. Halperin Pdf

What do Soviets think of Americans? What do they learn from books, newspapers, and films about life in America? How do we, as Americans form opinions about life in the U.S.S.R? Through the selective use of both Soviet and American materials, The Other Side explores these and other provocative questions that are central to public understanding of how perceptions affect U.S.-Soviet relations. The Other Side also examines the many differences between Soviet and American media, such as the role of the press, and offers article-by-article comparisons of Soviet and American press coverage of the same events. Appropriate for citizen of all ages, and groups as well as individuals, The Other Side includes a Reader's Guide, suggested educational projects, an annotated bibliography, and guidance for discussion leaders.

Author : Olga Fedina
Publisher : Anaconda Editions
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781901990133

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What Every Russian Knows (and You Don't) by Olga Fedina Pdf

This book is a collection of 12 essays looking at touchstones of Russian popular culture, mostly from the Soviet period, that continue to resonate through language, images, and ways of seeing the world in Russia today. These include films: The Irony of Fate, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, White Sun of the Desert, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; a novel: The Twelve Chairs; animated cartoons: Hedgehog in the Mist and The Prostokvashino Three; the writer Mikhail Bulgakov; the singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky; stand-up comedians Mikhail Zhvanestky and Mikhail Zadornov; and a character from a fairy tale, Yemelya the Simpleton. The subjects of the chapters were selected for their influence on Russian language and thinking, and also because they reflect Russian attitudes and perceptions. The author brings them to life through her own experiences of and responses to these modern icons.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118424735

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A Companion to Russian Cinema by Birgit Beumers Pdf

A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and thorough coverage of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, which also effectively fills gaps in the existing scholarship in the field This is the first volume on Russian cinema to explore specifically the history of movie theatres, studios, and educational institutions The editor is one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies, and contributions come from leading experts in the field of Russian Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture Chapters consider the arts of scriptwriting, sound, production design, costumes and cinematography Provides five portraits of key figures in Soviet and Russia film history, whose works have been somewhat neglected

Author : Katherine Zubovich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691202723

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Moscow Monumental by Katherine Zubovich Pdf

"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

Author : Kristin Roth-Ey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501771439

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Moscow Prime Time by Kristin Roth-Ey Pdf

When Nikita Khrushchev visited Hollywood in 1959 only to be scandalized by a group of scantily clad actresses, his message was blunt: Soviet culture would soon consign the mass culture of the West, epitomized by Hollywood, to the "dustbin of history." In Moscow Prime Time, a portrait of the Soviet broadcasting and film industries and of everyday Soviet consumers from the end of World War II through the 1970s, Kristin Roth-Ey shows us how and why Khrushchev’s ambitious vision ultimately failed to materialize. The USSR surged full force into the modern media age after World War II, building cultural infrastructures—and audiences—that were among the world’s largest. Soviet people were enthusiastic radio listeners, TV watchers, and moviegoers, and the great bulk of what they were consuming was not the dissident culture that made headlines in the West, but orthodox, made-in-the-USSR content. This, then, was Soviet culture’s real prime time and a major achievement for a regime that had long touted easy, everyday access to a socialist cultural experience as a birthright. Yet Soviet success also brought complex and unintended consequences. Emphasizing such factors as the rise of the single-family household and of a more sophisticated consumer culture, the long reach and seductive influence of foreign media, and the workings of professional pride and raw ambition in the media industries, Roth-Ey shows a Soviet media empire transformed from within in the postwar era. The result, she finds, was something dynamic and volatile: a new Soviet culture, with its center of gravity shifted from the lecture hall to the living room, and a new brand of cultural experience, at once personal, immediate, and eclectic—a new Soviet culture increasingly similar, in fact, to that of its self-defined enemy, the mass culture of the West. By the 1970s, the Soviet media empire, stretching far beyond its founders’ wildest dreams, was busily undermining the very promise of a unique Soviet culture—and visibly losing the cultural cold war. Moscow Prime Time is the first book to untangle the paradoxes of Soviet success and failure in the postwar media age.

Author : Caroline Brooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0195309510

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Moscow by Caroline Brooke Pdf

Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.

Author : Nancy Perloff,Brian M. Reed,Brian Reed
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 089236677X

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Situating El Lissitzky by Nancy Perloff,Brian M. Reed,Brian Reed Pdf

Reassessing the complex career of one of the most influential yet controversial experimental artists of the early 20th century, this volume of essays looks at the prolific painter, designer, architect and photographer, El Lissitzky (1890-1941).

Author : Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857712776

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From Moscow to Madrid by Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli Pdf

Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this lively and accessible book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema and shows how European films represent the cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the text engages with diverse films, including "Luna Park", "Run, Lola, Run", "Trainspotting", "Wonderland" and many more. It tackles the issues of postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities since the 1980s under the effects of political change, from the post-communist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London.