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Ukrainian cinema : belonging and identity during the Soviet thaw / Joshua First.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: KINO, the Russian cinema seriesPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0857726706
  • 9780857726704
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 791.4309477 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.U38 F57 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Stalinism, de-Stalinization and the Ukrainian in Soviet cinema -- Rebuilding a national studio during the early 1960s -- Sergei Paradjanov's Carpathian journey -- Paradjanov and the problem of film authorship -- 'Ukrainian poetic cinema' and the construction of 'Dovzhenko's traditions' -- Making national cinema in the era of stagnation -- 'Ukrainian poetic cinema' between the communist party and film audiences -- Conclusion: Ukrainian cinema and the limitations of national expression.
Summary: Historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. 'Ukrainian Cinema' during the Soviet thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian poetic cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that filmmakers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike recognize Ukrainian cultural difference.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index.

Print version record.

Stalinism, de-Stalinization and the Ukrainian in Soviet cinema -- Rebuilding a national studio during the early 1960s -- Sergei Paradjanov's Carpathian journey -- Paradjanov and the problem of film authorship -- 'Ukrainian poetic cinema' and the construction of 'Dovzhenko's traditions' -- Making national cinema in the era of stagnation -- 'Ukrainian poetic cinema' between the communist party and film audiences -- Conclusion: Ukrainian cinema and the limitations of national expression.

Historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. 'Ukrainian Cinema' during the Soviet thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian poetic cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that filmmakers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike recognize Ukrainian cultural difference.

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