RSNST-155 History of Russian Cinema

History of Russian Cinema traces the development of Russian film from its earliest pre-Revolutionary productions and the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s to the present day. We will examine the major issues of Russo-Soviet cinema as an artistic medium that responded to social and political events of the period. We will be analyzing the silent films by Drankov and Khanzhonkov; the pioneering cinema of Eisenstein, Kulishov, Vertov, and Pudovkin; Aleksandrov’s Hollywood-modeled propaganda films, and musical comedies of the 1930s; the portrayal of the events of the World War II; the aesthetic and moral quests of post-Stalinist filmmakers during Thaw and Stagnation; and new directions in post-Soviet cinema from 1991 to the Putin era.

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

CNMS-155