Soviet Animation and the Thaw of 1960s: Not Only for the Children

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Insects in motion: the first Russian animated films......Page 14
Moving caricatures and propaganda posters: the beginning of Soviet drawn animation......Page 15
Enlightening the masses: educational and scientific films......Page 23
Entertaining and educating: the first animated films for children......Page 24
Waiting for cel animation: drawings and flat marionettes......Page 27
Puppet and stop-motion animation......Page 28
The Leningrad experience: book illustrations meet avant-garde works in Mikhail Tsekhanovskii's films......Page 31
The advent of sound: Tsekhanovskii’s experiments......Page 38
The 1930s: the last satirical animated films......Page 45
A change of direction: animation for children only, the Disney influence......Page 47
The animation of World War II and the restrained reawakening of political films......Page 51
Animation after World War II: fables and folk art......Page 53
Khrushchev’s Thaw: innovations and restrictions......Page 60
Animation shifts in new directions: from the Stalin Era to the Thaw......Page 64
Space flights, sport, and the “Seientific-Technological Revolution”......Page 66
Propaganda and social criticism: new agitational films on the problem of alcoholism......Page 70
Satire in Soviet animation......Page 74
Popular culture and western influence......Page 78
From thematic to stylistic changes......Page 84
Foreign influence on stylistic choices......Page 87
General characteristics of the new stylistic tendencies......Page 90
Introduction......Page 92
Great Troubles (Bol'shie nepriiatnosti, Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, 1961)......Page 94
Story of a Crime (Istoriia odnogo prestupleniia, Fedor Khitruk, 1962)......Page 108
Context......Page 130
Attacks on the bureaucrat: The Man in the Frame (Chelovek v ramke, Fedor Khitruk, 1966)......Page 133
Bureaucratic world once more under attack: There Once Lived Koziavin (Zhil-byl Koziavin, Andrei Khrzhanovskii, 1966)......Page 148
Animation as a means for political criticism: The Glass Harmonica (Stekliannaia garmonika, Andrei Khrzhanovskii, 1968)......Page 156
Chanter 5 Conclusion: The Beginning of New Tendencies......Page 178
Archival material......Page 192
Soviet animation bibliography and works cited......Page 193
Suggested readings on animation art and critical and historical works......Page 219
Soviet animated films 1910-1979......Page 226
World animated films cited......Page 249
Index......Page 250