The Soviet Cinema of 1920s: Problems, Tendency And Tasks

• Authors: Motrunych Mariana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article shows how the Bolsheviks organized the cinematographic process in 1920s and what problems they faced. It interprets the meaning of the “national cinema” with a view to understand how it impacted feature films. It examined, as an example, the Jewish cinema experience. The canon of plot schemes and schemes of heroes is analyzed based on the cinema press and feature films.

Keywords

EN

the Bolsheviks; propaganda tool; the Soviet cinema; a cinema press; a “national” film; the Jewish cinema; shtetl; traditional images; new images

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Historia i Polityka
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 14(21)
• Pages: 134-144

Contributors

author

Motrunych Mariana

• National University of Kyiv – Mohyla Academy

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/HiP.2015.027