Hollywood - a Challenge for the Soviet Cinema

  • This book features four essays that illuminate the relationship between American and Soviet film cultures in the 20th century. The first essay emphasizes the structural similarities and dissimilarities of the two cultures. Both wanted to reach the masses. However, the goal in Hollywood was to entertain (and educate a little) and in Moscow to educate (and entertain a little). Some films in the Soviet Union as well as in the United States were conceived as clear competition to one another – as the second essay demonstrates – and the ideological opponent was not shown from its most advantageous side. The third essay shows how, in the 1980s, the different film cultures made it difficult for the Soviet director Andrei Konchalovsky to establish himself in the US, but nevertheless allowed him to succeed. In the 1960s, a genre became popular that tells the story of the Russian Civil War using stylistic features of the Western: The Eastern. Its rise and decline are analyzed in the fourth essay.

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Author details:Norbert P. FranzGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469398
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-46939
ISBN:978-3-86956-490-6
Subtitle (English):Four Essays
Publisher:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Place of publishing:Potsdam
Publication type:Monograph/Edited Volume
Language:English
Date of first publication:2020/09/25
Publication year:2020
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Publishing institution:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Release date:2020/09/25
Tag:Andrej Končalovskij; Filmgeschichte; Genre Eastern; Ideologien und Kino; Vergleich Filmkulturen
Andrei Konchalovsky; Genre Eastern; film cultures in comparison; history of cinema; ideologies and cinema
Number of pages:202
RVK - Regensburg classification:AP 44950, AP 51400 KON
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Slavistik
DDC classification:7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk
8 Literatur / 89 Andere Literaturen / 890 Literaturen anderer Sprachen
Peer review:Referiert
Publishing method:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Open Access / Gold Open-Access
License (German):License LogoCC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
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Hollywood – a Challenge for the Soviet Cinema : Four Essays / Norbert P. Franz. – Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2020. – 202 S.
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