ABSTRACT
With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost. Within the framework of an introduction that lays out the conceptual terminology used to describe that shifting ideological landscape, the authors analyze both the social groups appearing in the films and the relations of film directors and other film makers to state censorship and ideological control.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|35 pages
Theoretical and Historical Introduction
part II|35 pages
Soviet Movies in the Revolutionary Period (1918–1928): Cordial Acceptance of Official Ideology
part III|53 pages
Movies During Stalin's Time: Total Submission to the Official Ideology
part IV|46 pages
The Game with Official Ideology
part V|72 pages
Soviet Cinematographers Reject Official Ideology: Cinema during the Last Years of the Soviet Empire