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Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
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Joshua First's Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s, arguing that film-makers at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded recognition of Ukrainian cultural difference.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first comprehensive English-language study of Ukrainian cinema. Historian Joshua First delves into the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian poetic cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that filmmakers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were deeply concerned with identity issues and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences recognize the distinct cultural differences of Ukraine.
The first two chapters provide a historical background on how Soviet cinema since Stalin cultivated an exoticized and domesticated image of Ukrainians. Additionally, the film studio in Kiev sought to rebuild its reputation during the early 1960s as a center of the cultural thaw in the USSR.
The next two chapters examine Sergei Paradjanov's highly influential Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965), which played a crucial role in redirecting the Dovzhenko studio towards the auteurist (some would say elitist) agenda of poetic cinema.
In the final three chapters, Ukrainian Cinema explores the major works of film-makers such as Yurii Illienko, Leonid Osyka, and Leonid Bykov, among others, who attempted (and were compelled) to bridge the growing gap between a cinema of auteurs and the demands of generating profit for the Soviet film industry.
This book offers a valuable insight into the complex relationship between Ukrainian cinema, identity, and the Soviet system, providing a comprehensive analysis of a crucial period in the country's film history.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350371491
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