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Stalin's Final Films
2024
Overview
Stalin's Final Films explores
a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new
life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle
of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in
this period and fewer films were made, film attendance also peaked
as Soviet audiences voted with their seats and distinguished a
clearly popular postwar cinema.
Claire Knight examines the tensions between official ideology
and audience engagement, and between education and entertainment,
inherent in these popular films, as well as the financial
considerations that shaped and constrained them. She explores how
the Soviet regime used films to address the major challenges faced
by the USSR after the Great Patriotic War (World War II), showing
how war dramas, spy thrillers, Stalin epics, and rural comedies
alike were mobilized to consolidate an official narrative of the
war, reestablish Stalinist orthodoxy, and dramatize the rebuilding
of socialist society. Yet, Knight also highlights how these same
films were used by filmmakers more experimentally, exploring a
diverse range of responses to the ideological crisis that lay at
the heart of Soviet postwar culture, as a victorious people were
denied the fruits of their sacrificial labor. After the war, new
heroes were demanded by both the regime and Soviet audiences, and
filmmakers sought to provide them, with at times surprising
results.
Stalin's Final Films mines Soviet cinema as an
invaluable resource for understanding the unique character of
postwar Stalinism and the cinema of the most repressive era in
Soviet history.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Communism and motion pictures
/ Communism and motion pictures-Soviet Union
/ heroism
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era
/ Motion picture industry -- Soviet Union
/ Motion picture industry-Government policy-Soviet Union
/ Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
/ Motion pictures-Censorship-Soviet Union
/ PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
/ Socialist realism in motion pictures
/ SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY
ISBN
9781501776175, 1501776177, 1501776193, 9781501776199
