{"product_id":"manufacturing-truth-9780875803890","title":"Manufacturing Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the years 1921-1934, this book explores the great upsurge in documentary methods and approaches in the arts and reveals how the documentary impulse influenced the development of Stalinist culture. It is suitable for readers of Russian history, cultural history, literature, and film studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVery stimulating... well-written, deeply researched, theoretically sophisticated and evincing tremendous knowledge of both its topic and of scholarly literature written across eight decades in several different national contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e -- John MacKay, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell-written, well-argued, and well-researched.... as engaging as it is informative.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWonderfully stimulating. Papazian demonstrates that the idea of documenting the present with an eye on both the future and the past would become inherently subversive in a political order whose chiefs insisted on continually rewriting history.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction—Authors as Engineers: The Documentary Moment\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One—Operative Mode: Sergei Tretiakov's Art of Fact\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two—Technological Mode: Dziga Vertov and Kino-Communication\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three—Realist Mode: Maksim Gorky, the Truth, and the Collective\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four—Ironic Mode: Mikhail Zoshchenko's Reconstruction of the Reader\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion—A New Documentary Moment?\u003cbr\u003e Terms and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406419861847,"sku":"9780875803890","price":31.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/manufacturing-truth-9780875803890","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}