Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953

by Claire Knight

Stalin's Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in this period and fewer films were made, film attendance also peaked as Soviet audiences voted with their seats and distinguished a clearly popular postwar cinema.

Claire Knight examines the tensions inherent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501776177
• ISBN13: 9781501776175
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"