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Informationen zum Autor Graham Roberts is Director of the Institute of Communication Studies and Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Leeds, UK. Klappentext "Forward Soviet!" is the first comprehensive account of Soviet documentary output during the years between the "Great October Socialist Revolution" and the "Great Patriotic War." Drawing on previously closed State archives! Graeme Roberts re-views the great examples of Soviet and world non-fiction cinema and uncovers many fine and intriguing little-known films. He discusses the careers of men and women who made them! including Vertov! Shub! Medvedkin and Karmen and investigates the problems of analysis and context! while offering valuable insights into that context. "Forward Soviet!" is a powerful demonstration of how the history of Soviet non-fiction film can give insight into the agencies that shaped Soviet history and culture. Vorwort This is an account of Soviet documentary output during the years between the "Great October Socialist Revolution" and the "Great Patriotic War". Graeme Roberts re-views the examples of Soviet, and world, non-fiction cinema, and uncovers many intriguing films. Zusammenfassung This is an account of Soviet documentary output during the years between the "Great October Socialist Revolution" and the "Great Patriotic War". Graeme Roberts re-views the examples of Soviet, and world, non-fiction cinema, and uncovers many intriguing films. Inhaltsverzeichnis Russian and Soviet unplayed film, 1898-1922; Vertov and the cine-eye; Esfir Shub and the great way forward; beyond the cine-eye; the impact of sound and "documentalism"; from realism to "realpolitik"; the not so strange death of Soviet documentary.
