The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

by Andrew Horton and Michael Brashinsky

Book Overview

Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically. How have Soviet filmmakers responded to the challenges of glasnost? To answer this question, the American film scholar Andrew Horton and the Soviet critic Michael Brashinsky offer the first book-length study of the rapid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691019207
• ISBN13: 9780691019208
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"