Socialist Senses Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917-1940 |
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| Author:
| Widdis, Emma |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-02694-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2017 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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Drawing upon an extraordinary array of films, noted scholar Emma Widdis shows how Soviet cinema, as it evolved from the revolutionary avant-garde to Socialist Realism, gradually shifted its materialist agenda from emphasizing the external senses to instilling the appropriate internal senses (consciousness, emotions) in the new Soviet subject.
Drawing upon an extraordinary array of films, noted scholar Emma Widdis shows how Soviet cinema, as it evolved from the revolutionary avant-garde to Socialist Realism, gradually shifted its materialist agenda from emphasizing the external senses to instilling the appropriate internal senses (consciousness, emotions) in the new Soviet subject.