Soviet Art House - Lenfilm Studio Under Brezhnev

Soviet Art House provides a unique look into a Soviet film studio from the 1960s to the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tells the story of how filmmakers struggled with and overcame ideological and economic constraints to create oppositional and highly original movies in an authoritarian society.

About the author

Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a leading historian of Russian culture and society. She is the author of numerous books on Russian modernism, gender history, the history of childhood, national identity, and the recent history of Leningrad/St Petersburg, some of which have been translated into Russian.

Summary

Soviet Art House provides a unique look into a Soviet film studio from the 1960s to the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tells the story of how filmmakers struggled with and overcame ideological and economic constraints to create oppositional and highly original movies in an authoritarian society.

Additional text

To embark on making an art house movie under Brezhnev, the author shows with the clarity and insight of someone who spent years on studying the Lenfilm studio papers, was tantamount to submitting one's creative will to a variety of whims and whips—institutional and ideological. Every chapter in Kelly's book devoted to this or that art film reads like a perilous journey that ends in a miraculous survival.

Product details

• Authors: Catriona Kelly, Catriona (Professor of Russian Kelly, Kelly Catriona
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780197548363
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754836-3
• No. of pages: 520
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, The Cold War, Film production: technical & background skills, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General