Soviet Auteur Cinema After the Thaw

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Following Stalin's death, Soviet film—like Soviet culture—changed in meaningful ways. Emerging from a system that had stymied individual, creative voices, prominent directors now found their own respective styles, as they embraced their personal visions to produce works that diverged significantly from the mainstream. Grounded in auteur theory, this volume explores how these filmmakers expressed themselves through creative cinematic means rather than through a narrow emphasis on narrative or in accordance with popular—and governmental—whims.Each chapter focuses on a specific filmmaker, from well-known auteurs Aleksei German Sr., Kira Muratova, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, and Larisa Shepit'ko, to others less familiar in the West: Sergei Solovyov, Roman Balayan, Otar Iosseliani, Tengiz Aduladze, and Ali Khamraev. Hailing from a range of Soviet republics, they all impacted the Soviet cinematic sphere despite harsh censorship and the repression of artists throughout the nation. By integrating cinematic and theoretical perspectives into a discussion of auteur Soviet films, this volume illuminates the significance of a cinematic trend that took place in both Soviet culture and international film history.Contributors: Robert Efird, Tim Harte, Lilya Kaganovsky, David Gomiero Molina, Lida Oukaderova, Elizabeth A. Papazian, Marina Rojavin, Rita Safariants, Sydney Stotter, Sergey Toymentsev

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-23
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWisconsin Film Studies
Antal sidor300
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299359409

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Marina Rojavin is a visiting assistant professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr University. She is a coeditor of Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Decay and Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods.Tim Harte is a professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr University. He is the author of Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture and Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910–1930, and a coeditor of Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s and Women in Soviet Film.

List of IllustrationsIntroductionPart I. Temporal ChoicesChapter 1. The (In)Hospitable Terrain of Tengiz Abuladze's The PleaChapter 2. Andrei Tarkovsky and the Spiritualization of Time Chapter 3. Cinema as a Persian Carpet: Ali Khamraev's Exploration of GenrePart II. Aesthetic ChoicesChapter 4. Otar Iosseliani and His Filmic Framing of TraditionChapter 5. Within and Without the Frame: Ways of Seeing and Knowing in the Films of Sergei ParajanovChapter 6. From Word to Silence: Literary Metamorphosis in Roman Balayan's FilmsChapter 7. The Rock-and-Roll Auteur: Sergei Solovyov's "Youthful Insanity"Part III. Ethical ChoicesChapter 8. "A Woman in a Male Profession": Larisa Shepitko and the Female AuteurChapter 9. Getting to Know the Big Wide World: Kira Muratova and the Labor of LoveChapter 10. Hard to Be a Stoic: Aleksei German Sr.'s Drama of EnduranceAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex