Movies for Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s

by Denise J. Youngblood

Book Overview

This book presents a pathbreaking study of Soviet popular cinema in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood focuses on commercial directors, acting genres, box office hits and audience responses to these films and their stars. She also examines the role of foreign films and the governmental and industrial circumstances underlying filmmaking practices of the era. The author demonstrates that during the first decade after the revolution, Soviet cinema was dominated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521466326
• ISBN13: 9780521466325
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"