Marina L. Levitina

Russian Americans' in Soviet Film

Cinematic Dialogues Between the US and the USSR

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are regarded as polar opposites on nearly every front. Yet American films and translated adventure fiction were warmly received in 1920s Russia and partly shaped ideals of the New Soviet Person into the 1940s. Cinema was crucial in propagating this new social hero. While open admiration of American film stars and heroes of literary fiction in the Soviet press was restricted from the late 1920s onwards, many positive heroes of Soviet Socialist Realist films in the 1930s and 1940s were partially a product of Soviet Americanism of the previous decade. Some of the new Soviet heroes in films of the 1930s and 1940s possessed traits noticeably evocative of the previously popular American film stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Pearl White and Mary Pickford. Others cinematically represented the contemporary trope of the 'Russian American,' an ideal worker exemplifying the Stalinist marriage of 'Russian revolutionary sweep' with 'American efficiency. "Russian Americans' in Soviet Film analyses the content, reception and underlying influences of over 60 Soviet and American films, the book explores new territory in Soviet cinema and Soviet-American cultural relations. It presents groundbreaking archival research encompassing Soviet audience surveys, Soviet film journals and reviews, memoirs and articles by Soviet filmmakers, and scripts, among other sources. The book reveals that values of optimism, technological skill, efficiency and self-reliance - perceived as quintessentially American - were incorporated into new Soviet ideals through channels of cross-cultural dissemination, resulting in cultural synthesis.

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Produktdetails

• KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781350200050
• ISBN-10: 1350200050
• Artikelnr.: 59917623

Autorenporträt

Marina Levitina teaches Russian Cinema and Russian Cultural Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin. Her research interests include early Soviet cinema and culture, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and cinema and memory. She is also a documentary filmmaker.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. Sources and Models II. American Cinema as the Source of the
'Russian American' New Soviet Man Model III. The 'Crucified' and the
'Glorified' New Man IV. Contribution to the Field V. Methodology Chapter 1.
Popularity of American Films and Stars in Soviet Russia in the 1920s I.
Before and After 1917: 'Daredevil' Pearl White through Russian Eyes II.
After 1922: Soviet Reception of American Films III. Avant-garde Filmmakers'
Response to American Cinema IV. Douglas Fairbanks as the Prototype of the
Positive Hero of Socialist Realist Cinema Chapter 2. Americans and 'Russian
Americans' on the Screen in the 1920s: Cinematic and Literary Connections
I. 'Red Pinkertons': The Effects of the American Adventure Genre on
Portrayals of the New Soviet Man II. 'Russian American' New Soviet Man in
'Novyi Byt' Films of the Late 1920s III. Representations of Americans in
Soviet Films with Contemporary Themes IV. Representations of Americans in
Soviet Film Adaptations of American Literature Chapter 3. New Soviet Woman
in the Cinema of the 1920s I. Reality and Transformation of a Soviet Woman
II. American Models of New Femininity in Early Soviet Films III. From the
1920s to the 1930s: the Shift in Policy and Representation Chapter 4.
'Americanized' New Soviet Woman on the Screen in the 1930s and early 1940s
I. From Multiple Models of Femininity in the 1920s to the Unified Model of
the 1930s II. Liubov' Orlova: Pickfordian Femininity and the 'Russian
American' Ideal III. The New Soviet Woman in The Shining Path (1940) IV.
Ianina Zheimo: Another Soviet Pickford? Chapter 5. 'Americanized' New
Soviet Man in Films of the 1930s and early 1940s I. The New Optimism II.
Fitness and Fame: Sportsmen Heroes III. Mastery over Technology:
Engineers-Inventors IV. Efficiency and Rationalization of Labour V.
Trailblazers in the Skies: The Cult of the Aviator Hero Conclusion I.
American Film Actor: The 'Brick and Cement' for Constructing Soviet Cinema
II. 'Americanization of Personality' III. 1930s: Human Beings of a Superior
Kind IV. 'Americanness' at the Root of 'Sovietness'? Appendix Filmography
Bibliography