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Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: New Directions in National Cinemas (Paperback)

Autor Joshua Malitsky
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2013
In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to re-imagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize society as a whole. 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 also provides a framework for understanding the larger political and cultural implications of documentary and nonfiction film.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253007667
ISBN-10: 0253007666
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 19 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Indiana University Press
Seria New Directions in National Cinemas (Paperback)


Cuprins

1. Introduction: Revolutionary Rupture and National StabilityPart 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 FilmPart 2 4. The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927; 5. (Non)Alignments and the New Revolutionary ManPart 3 6. Esfir Shub, Factography, and the New Documentary Historiography; 7. The Object of Revolutionary History: Santiago Álvarez' Commemorative Newsreels and Chronicle Documentaries, 1972-1974Notes; Filmography; Bibliography


Recenzii

Joshua Malitsky here mines a rich seam. By closely comparing Vertov and Alvarez he uncovers 'post-revolutionary nonfiction film' as a discernible entity with commonalities shared across time and cultures. The extensive--indeed vast--archive of newsreels from both filmmakers is well worth the thorough attention he gives it, suggesting a context for their better-known documentaries. And his situating of Esfir Shub's compilations as not so much an alternative to Vertov but rather a wholesale replacement approach to agitprop is also compelling. All in all, Malitsky offers a crucial corrective to much received thinking on 20th century radical film. --Brian Winston, University of Lincoln, UK

Notă biografică

Joshua Malitsky is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington.


Descriere

In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to re-imagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize society as a whole. 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 also provides a framework for understanding the larger political and cultural implications of documentary and nonfiction film.