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

Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations Series KINO, the Russian and Soviet cinema series ; 13 KINO, the Russian cinema series. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Motion pictures -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century Films, cinema. PERFORMING ARTS / Reference Motion pictures Performing Arts. Soviet Union Ukraine Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780857726704 0857726706 9780857736260 0857736264

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