Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film - Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Malitsky Klappentext Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film not only presents a critical historical view of the politics, rhetoric, and aesthetics shaping post-revolution Soviet and Cuban culture but provides a framework for understanding the larger political and cultural implications of documentary and nonfiction film. Zusammenfassung Examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool to create powerful historical and political narratives Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Revolutionary Rupture and National Stability Part 1 2. Kino-Nedelia, Early Documentary, and the Performance of a New Collective, 1917-1921 3. A Cinema Looking For People: The Individual and the Collective in Immediate Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nonfiction Film Part 2 4. The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927 5. (Non)Alignments and the New Revolutionary Man Part 3 6. Esfir Shub, Factography, and the New Documentary Historiography 7. The Object of Revolutionary History: Santiago Álvarez' Commemorative Newsreels and Chronicle Documentaries, 1972-1974 Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Malitsky, Malitsky Joshua
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2013
• EAN: 9780253007643
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00764-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: New Directions in National Cin; New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet