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Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
Joshua First
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Description for Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
Hardback. Historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. Series: KINO: The Russian and Soviet Cinema Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity 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 film-makers 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. The first two chapters provide the background on how Soviet cinema since Stalin cultivated an exoticised and domesticated image of Ukrainians, along with how the film studio in Kiev ... Read more
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity 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 film-makers 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. The first two chapters provide the background on how Soviet cinema since Stalin cultivated an exoticised and domesticated image of Ukrainians, along with how the film studio in Kiev ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
KINO: The Russian and Soviet Cinema Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780765549
SKU
V9781780765549
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About Joshua First
Joshua First is the Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi, USA. He has published on a variety of topics related to Soviet cinema after Stalin, ranging from film audience research to melodrama to his present interest in Ukrainian cinema. He teaches courses on Modern Russian and Soviet history, and on contemporary Russian politics ... Read more
Reviews for Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
Ukrainian Cinema is making a great addition to a still small – but hopefully growing – body of work that will break the pattern which uncritically equates Soviet and Russian cinemas and either "Russifies" or keeps the cinemas of the former republics in the shadow.
CEU Review of Books
CEU Review of Books