"Cinema has long been recognized as the privileged bridge between Soviet ideologues and their mass public. Recent feminist-oriented work has drawn out the symbolic role of women in Soviet culture, but, not surprisingly, men too were expected to play their part. This is a study of masculinity in Stalinist Soviet cinema. A detailed analysis of Stalinist discourse sets the stage for an examination of the imagined relationship between the patriarch Stalin and his ""model sons"" in the key genre cycles of the era: from the capital to the collective farms, and ultimately to the very borders of the Soviet state. Informed by contemporary and present-day debates over the social and cultural significance of cinema and masculinity, ""New Soviet Man"" draws on a range of theoretical and comparative material to produce engaging and accessible readings accounting for both the appeal of - and the inherent potential for subversion within - films produced by the Stalinist culture industry."
By:
John Haynes
Other:
Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 281g
ISBN: 9780719062384
ISBN 10: 0719062381
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 27 March 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Why men, and why Stalinist cinema?; cultural revolution, or the masculiniztion of discourse; urban myths - the musical comedies of Grigorii Aleksandrov; countryphile - men in labour in the collective farm comedies of Ivan Pyr'ev; brothers in arms - the changing face of the Soviet soldier in Stalinst cinema.
John Haynes is Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of History at the University of Essex -- .
Reviews for New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinst Soviet Cinema
Evoke the nostalgic China of old China hands, replete with rickshaws, coolies and singsing girls...satisfying accounts of the follies and foibles of the British diplomats and expatriates who stubbornly ignore the native culture and labor to create little enclaves of Chelsea and Soho in Asia Los Angeles Times Masterly...carefully wrought prose sketches...The magical, mysterious East is richly portrayed Newsday A fascinating volume - vivid, thoughtful, full of colour New York Times
