Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917-1929

Informationen zum Autor Richard Taylor was very much influenced by his service in the Vietnam War as a young officer and later in the Philippines as a senior officer. His seminal work, "Prodigals: A Vietnam Story" is an account of a young man facing the rigors and trials of war, then living with them for the rest of his life.Now retired, he resides with the love of his life and all his writings have been about love in wartime. Klappentext The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties. Zusammenfassung This book looks at the Soviet cinema in its formative period from the political point of view! examining both the attitude of the authorities towards the cinema and the actual use to which the cinema was put. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Abbreviations; 1. The pre-history of the Soviet cinema; 2. The Bolsheviks, propaganda and the cinema; 3. Revolution and Civil War; 4. The disorganisation of organisation: the early twenties; 5. The organisation of disorganisation: the later twenties; 6. The Party takes control; 7. Theory and film; 8. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Professor Richard Taylor, Richard Taylor, Richard (Uc Swansea) Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521088558
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08855-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Lse Monographs in Internationa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous