Book 2008

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

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008

Motion pictures, history
Motion pictures, soviet union
Communism, soviet union
Motion pictures
History
Motion pictures and history
Motion pictures in propaganda
Communism and motion pictures

This text 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 it located between history and the past.