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The cinema of the Soviet thaw :

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 o...

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Main Author: Oukaderova, Lida
Format: Printed Book
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2017
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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"--
Physical Description:x, 214 pages : illustrations ;
ISBN:9780253026965