The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

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Author(s): Andrew Horton, Michael Brashinsky
Edition: 1
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1992

Language: English
Pages: 318
City: Princeton

Contents......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction: Period of Adjustment......Page 34
Part One. Glasnost: Back to the Present......Page 62
Chapter 1. Back to the Present: (Re)presenting the Soviet Past in Feature Films......Page 64
Chapter 2. "We Are Your Children": Soviet Youth, Cinema, and Changing Values......Page 98
Chapter 3. "Wherever Will I Begin?" Soviet Women in Cinema and on Film......Page 130
Part Two. Glasnost: Down with Stuttering......Page 156
Chapter 4. Is It Easy to Be Honest? Glasnost in the Documentary Film......Page 158
Chapter 5. Down with Stuttering: Soviet Popular Genres and the New Film Language......Page 188
Chapter 6. From Accusatory to Joyful Laughter: Restructuring the Soviet Comic-Satiric Muse......Page 218
Part Three. The Islands of the Continent......Page 248
Chapter 7. The Islands of the Continent: A Revised Map for Ethnic Cinemas......Page 250
In Place of a Conclusion: The Zero Hour......Page 276
Filmography......Page 282
Bibliography......Page 294
Index......Page 308