Alexander Prokhorov (College of William and USA Mary), Elena Prokhorova (College of William and USA Mary)

Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A brilliant overview of the film and television of the Soviet Union in the Stagnation period, shedding new light on the culture of the era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781441134288
• ISBN-10: 144113428X
• Artikelnr.: 36059695

Autorenporträt

Alexander Prokhorov is Associate Professor of Russian and Film Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. He is the author of Inherited Discourse: Paradigms of Stalinist Culture in Literature and Cinema of the Thaw.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
0.1. Approaches to Film and Television Genres
0.2. Why Television?
0.3. The Difficult Fate of Genre Studies in the USSR and Russia
0.4. Overview of Chapters: from Socialist Realism to Film Genres
Chapter 1. Epic Film as a Tool of Hard and Soft Power during the Cold War.
1.1. Syntax and Semantics of the Genre
1.2. War and Peace: Art Cinema on State Service
1.3. Liberation: War Spectacle and the Politics of Memory
1.4. Postscriptum: The Revival of Prestige Productions under Putin
Chapter 2. The Socialist Television Police Procedural of the 1970s and 80s:
Teaching Soviet Citizens How to Behave.
2.1. Syntax and Semantics of the Genre
2.2. The Investigation Is Conducted by Experts: The Soviet Police
Procedural Is Born
2.3. The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed: The Romantics of Criminal
Underworld
2.4. Postscriptum: Streetwise Cops Meet the Russian Mafia
Chapter 3. Late-Soviet Comedy: Between Rebellion and the Status Quo.
3.1. Syntax and Semantics of the Genre
3.2. El'dar Riazanov: The Trappings and Traps of Private Life
3.3. Mark Zakharov's Television Films: Between the Romance and the Sitcom
3.4. Postscriptum: The Living and the (Un)Dead
Chapter 4. Reinventing Desire: Late-socialist Melodrama
4.1. Syntax and Semantics of the Genre
4.2. Television Melodrama
4.3. Cinematic Masculinities
4.4. Late-Soviet Woman's Film
4.5. Postscriptum: Televised Passions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index