Description
Book SynopsisExamines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool to create powerful historical and political narratives
Trade Review[M]alitsky's book is an extremely valuable contribution to both film theory and film history and should become required reading for students of film with a focus on documentary.October 2014
* Russian Review *
A book that analyzes Soviet cinema side-by-side with Cuban film is welcome, even though the two countries are represented here in parallel. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Revolutionary Rupture and National Stability
Part 1
2. Kino-Nedelia, Early Documentary, and the Performance of a New Collective, 1917-1921
3. A Cinema Looking For People: The Individual and the Collective in Immediate Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nonfiction Film
Part 2
4. The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927
5. (Non)Alignments and the New Revolutionary Man
Part 3
6. Esfir Shub, Factography, and the New Documentary Historiography
7. The Object of Revolutionary History: Santiago Álvarez' Commemorative Newsreels and Chronicle Documentaries, 1972-1974
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
