Before the Fall: Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years

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Publisher: Xlibris
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 426
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Originally published as Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 19
Introduction......Page 20
Part I. The Melting of the Ice......Page 26
Chapter 1. The Waning of the Brezhnev Era......Page 28
Chapter 2. Perestroika in the Film Factory......Page 83
Chapter 3. Learning a New Game: khozraschet......Page 105
Chapter 4. Serving the Muse or the People?......Page 132
Part II. Spring Waters and Mud......Page 154
Chapter 5. Off the Shelf......Page 156
Chapter 6. Exorcising the Past......Page 188
Chapter 7. Facing the Present......Page 224
Chapter 8. Peering into the Future......Page 283
Part III. Post-Soviet Cinema......Page 306
Chapter 9. The Time of Troubles......Page 308
Conclusion......Page 332
Notes......Page 336
Bibliography......Page 378
Filmography......Page 392
Index......Page 408

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