Movies for the Masses : Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s
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' ... we hear the knowledgeable, intelligent and confident voice of an expert. It is a wonderful book.' Soviet Studies
'Youngblood is an extremely knowledgeable guide. It seems that she has perused all contemporary film journals and read almost every film review. She wastes no time on over-clever analysis of individual frames; there is no semiotics, deconstruction or any other modern over-valued analytical tool here. Instead we hear the knowledgeable, intelligent and confident voice of an expert. It is a wonderful book.' Peter Kenez, Europe-Asia Studies
'[Movies for the masses] is often provocative and stimulating. It is also well written, very readable and has a style that engages both the reader's attention and the intellect ... It provides a wealth of statistical information ... and will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers from politics, film and cultural studies ... [It] is a 'good read' and you leave it knowing more about the period, as well as having your own arguments 'honed' by the new evidence and opinions provided.' Roger Powell, Drama
Book Description
This book presents a pathbreaking study of Soviet popular cinema in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood focuses on commercial directors, acting genres, box office hits and audience responses to these films and their stars. She also examines the role of foreign films and the governmental and industrial circumstances underlying filmmaking practices of the era. The author demonstrates that during the first decade after the revolution, Soviet cinema was dominated by "bourgeois" directors and middle class tastes and was greatly influenced by Western and pre-revolutionary film cultures.
Movies for the Masses : Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s,Denise J. Youngblood,Cambridge University Press,0521466326,Europe - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,History,History: World,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,20th century,European history: from c 1900 -,Films, cinema,Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe),History / Europe / General
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