Description
In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a "mighty instrument of mass agitation and propaganda" and strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors.
Author: Maria Belodubrovskaya
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 11/15/2020
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9781501752025
ISBN10: 1501752022
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- History | Russia | General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
About the Author
Maria Belodubrovskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.