Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution

by Evgeny Dobrenko

This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history, the conversion of the present and experience into history, mechanisms of transfer, and what is located between history and the past. The representation of history is always the representation of power. The institution of legitimization and the mechanism for the production of identity, history is the past,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748634452
• ISBN13: 9780748634453
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages