Focusing on work by both celebrated and unknown Soviet directors and screenwriters, this is the first book written about all Soviet narrative films dealing with the Holocaust from 1938 to 1991. In addition to studying the completed films, it analyzes the projects that were banne…
Despite the Soviet tendency of silencing the Holocaust, or at least its universalization and externalization in literature and in the arts, the Soviet film industry has produced a number of films dealing with the Holocaust, or at least mentioning it. In the representation of Naz…
Focusing on work by both celebrated and unknown Soviet directors and screenwriters, this is a book about Soviet narrative films dealing with the Holocaust from 1938 to 1991. In addition to studying the completed films, it analyzes the projects that were banned at various stages …
"When Nikita Khrushchev visited Hollywood in 1959 only to be scandalized by a group of scantily clad actresses, his message was blunt: Soviet culture would soon consign the mass culture of the West, epitomized by Hollywood, to the 'dustbin of history.' In Moscow Prime Time, a po…
Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks the first attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development of Soviet cinema. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of the antecedents, role and consequences of Stalinism an…
