Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203), filmography (pages 205-206) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The persistence of presence: Soviet panoramic cinema -- Mimetic passages: the cinema of Mikhail Kalatozov and Sergei Urusevskii -- The architecture of movement: Georgii Danelia's I walk the streets of Moscow -- A walk through the ruins: Larisa Sepitko's Wings -- The obdurate matter of space: Kira Muratova's Brief encounters -- Conclusion: the otherness of space.
Summary:
Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw became known for its relative political and cultural liberalization; its films, formally innovative and socially engaged, were swept to the center of international cinematic discourse. In 'The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw', Lida Oukaderova provides an in-depth analysis of several Soviet films made between 1958 and 1967 to argue for the centrality of space - as both filmic trope and social concern - to Thaw-era cinema"-- Provided by publisher.ferences (pages 193-203), filmography (pages 205-206) and index.
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