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Alexander Prokhorov - Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era - 9781441134288 - V9781441134288
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Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

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Description for Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era Paperback. A brilliant overview of the film and television of the Soviet Union in the Stagnation period, shedding new light on the culture of the era. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; APF; APT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 507.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441134288
SKU
V9781441134288
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Ref
99-15

About Alexander Prokhorov
Alexander Prokhorov is Associate Professor of Russian and Film Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. He is the author of Inherited Discourse: Paradigms of Stalinist Culture in Literature and Cinema of the Thaw (2007). Elena Prokhorova is Associate Professor of Russian and Film Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. Her articles have appeared ... Read more

Reviews for Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era
Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova have written an excellent, highly informative, analytically deep, and lucid book that will impact the field with exponentially increasing force. They have laid the foundation for a new conceptualization of late Soviet cinema, TV, and culture in general. Their definitions and descriptions of late Soviet cinematic and TV genres offer an arsenal of tools that ... Read more

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