Ukrainian Cinema

Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw

Joshua First (University of Mississippi, USA.), Birgit Beumers, Lilya Kaganovsky

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
26 January 2023

Films, movies & cinema; European history; Cinema industry

Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema

Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike recognize Ukrainian cultural difference. The first two chapters provide the background on how Soviet cinema since Stalin cultivated an exoticised and domesticated image of Ukrainians, along with how the film studio in Kiev attempted to rebuild its reputation during the early Sixties as a centre of the cultural thaw in the USSR. The next two chapters examine Sergei Paradjanov's highly influential Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and its role in reorienting the Dovzhenko studio toward the auteurist (some would say elitist) agenda of Poetic Cinema. In the final three chapters, Ukrainian Cinema looks at the major works of film-makers Yurii Illienko, Leonid Osyka, and Leonid Bykov, among others, who attempted (and were compelled) to bridge the growing gap between a cinema of auteurs and concerns to generate profit for the Soviet film industry.

By: Joshua First (University of Mississippi USA.)
Edited by: Birgit Beumers, Lilya Kaganovsky
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350371491
ISBN 10: 1350371491
Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 26 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Joshua First is the Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi, USA. He has published on a variety of topics related to Soviet cinema after Stalin, ranging from film audience research to melodrama to his present interest in Ukrainian cinema. He teaches courses on Modern Russian and Soviet history, and on contemporary Russian politics and culture.

Reviews for Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw

"Ukrainian Cinema is making a great addition to a still small – but hopefully growing – body of work that will break the pattern which uncritically equates Soviet and Russian cinemas and either ""Russifies"" or keeps the cinemas of the former republics in the shadow. * CEU Review of Books *"