Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

Name: Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
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ISBN: 9780253007667

ISBN-10: 0253007666

ISBN-13: 9780253007667

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joshua Malitsky

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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. In this book, 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 in 1917 and the Cuban revolution in 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize the society as a whole. Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film not only provides a critical…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Revolutionary Rupture and National Stability






Kino-Nedelia, Early Documentary, and the Performance of a New Collective, 1917-1921



A Cinema Looking for People: The Individual and the Collective in Immediate Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nonfiction Film






The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927



(Non)Alignments and the New Revolutionary Man






Esfir Shub, Factography, and the New Documentary Historiography



The Object of Revolutionary History: Santiago ï¿½lvarez's Commemorative Newsreels and Chronicle Documentaries, 1972-1974


Notes


Bibliography


Filmography


Index