LEADER 02997nam 2200409 450 001 9910806805603321 005 20240102235735.0 010 $a9781501752025 010 $a1-5017-1380-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501713804 035 $a(CKB)4340000000196139 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000196139 100 $a20170327d2017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNot according to plan $efilmmaking under Stalin /$fMaria Belodubrovskaya 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2020. 215 $axi, 251 pages : $4illustrations$d23 cm 311 $a1-5017-1381-7 311 $a1-5017-0994-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aQuantity vs. quality : Soviet film policy and the intolerance of imperfection -- Templan : "bastard" plans and creative counter-planning -- The masters : the director-centered mode of production and the tradition of quality -- Screenwriting : lack of professionalization and the literary scenario -- Censorship : industry self-censorship and extreme uncertainty -- Conclusion : the failure of mass cinema under Stalin and the institutional study of ideology. 330 $aIn Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a "mighty instrument of mass agitation and propaganda" and strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors.The Stalinist party-state, despite explicit intent and grandiose plans to build a "Soviet Hollywood" that would release a thousand features per year, failed to construct even a modest mass propaganda cinema. Belodubrovskaya's wealth of evidence shows that the regime's desire to disseminate propaganda on a vast scale was consistently at odds with its compulsion to control quality and with Stalin's intolerance of imperfection. Not According to Plan is a landmark in Soviet cultural history and the global history of cinema. 606 $aMotion picture industry$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aMotion pictures$zSoviet Union$xHistory 615 0$aMotion picture industry$xHistory. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 700 $aBelodubrovskaya$b Maria$01598330 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910806805603321 996 $aNot according to plan$93920508 997 $aUNINA