Not According to Plan

Maria Belodubrovskaya

Description

In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a "mighty instrument of mass agitation and propaganda" and strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History of Europe
• History of film

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501713804
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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NOTACCORDING TO PLAN

NOT ACCORDING TOPLAN FilmmakingunderStalin

MariaBelodubrovskaya

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Belodubrovskaya, Maria, author. Title: Not according to plan : filmmaking under Stalin / Maria Belodubrovskaya. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017014439 (print) | LCCN 2017015516 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501713811 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501713804 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501709944 | ISBN 9781501709944 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Motion picture industry—Soviet Union—History. | Motion pictures—Soviet Union—History. | Stalin, Joseph, 1878–1953—Influence. Classification: LCC PN1993.5.R9 (ebook) | LCC PN1993.5.R9 B385 2017 (print) | DDC 384/.80947—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014439

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Cover illustration: Konstantin Eliseev, “Segodnia v kino” [Today at the Cinema], Krokodil30–31 (1943): 8.

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Contents

TermsandAbbreviations NoteonTransliteration

Introduction

1.  Quantity vs. Quality: Soviet Film Policy and the Intolerance of Imperfection 2. Templanandans”PltardB“sa:ngnianplretnuoCevitaerC 3.  The Masters: The DirectorCentered Mode of Production and the Tradition of Quality 4.  Screenwriting: Lack of Professionalization and the Literary Scenario 5. apihsrosneCflendeCsnrodustrySship:In Extreme Uncertainty

Conclusion: The Failure of Mass Cinema under Stalin  and the Institutional Study of Ideology

Acknowledgments Appendixes 1. Soviet FeatureFilm Production 2. Soviet Cinema Administrations (1930–1953) 3. The Institutions of Soviet Film Censorship Bibliography Index

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TermsandAbbreviations

ARRK

CentralCommittee

Glavkinoprokat Glavrepertkom Gosfilmofond Gosplan GUK GUKF

GURK KhPO Komsomol Narkompros NKVD

ODSK politprosvetfilm RGALI RGASPI RSFSR Soiuzkino

Sovnarkom

templan TsGALI

TsOKS

AssociationofWorkersofRevolutionaryCinema (1924–1935) ChiefadministrativebodyoftheCommunistPartyofthe Soviet Union Main Film Distribution Administration (1938–1953) Main Repertory Control Committee (1923–1933) State Film Foundation State Planning Agency Main Cinema Administration (1936–1938) MainAdministrationforCinemaandPhotoIndustry (1933–1936) Main Administration for Repertory Control (1934–1936) Artisticproduction unit Young Communist League People’s Commissariat of Education People’sCommissariatofInternalAffairs,successorto OGPU (Joint Chief Political Directorate) and precursor to KGB (Committee for State Security) Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema (1925–1934) Lit., political and enlightenment film Russian State Archive for Literature and Art Russian State Archive for Social and Political History Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic AllUnionCombinefortheCinemaandPhotoIndustry (1930–1933) CouncilofPeople’sCommissars,chiefexecutivebody of the Soviet government, succeeded by the Council of Ministers in 1946 thematic plan CentralStateArchiveforLiteratureandArtin St. Petersburg Central United Film Studio for Feature Films

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