Love, Cinema and Stalin
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This video will be dedicated to the depiction of love in Stalin-era films. I'll demonstrate some rather exotic ideas conveyed to the average viewer of that time.
Timestamps:
0:00 — Introduction
4:02 — Historical Notes
9:02 — "By the Bluest Sea"
21:15 — "Pilots"
29:35 — "Two Soldiers"
38:41 — Love Sublimation
45:07 — "Hammer and Sickle"
Many sources were used in the creation of this video, the main ones being:
Film History: An Introduction by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, Chapter 6 – Soviet Cinema in the 1920s, Chapter 12 – Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945
Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man by Mikhail Heller
How the Soviet Man Was Unmade by Lilya Kaganovsky
Stalin's Vision of Utopia: The Future Communist Society by Geroid Tanquary Robinson
Censorship, Ideology, and Style in Soviet Cinema by Ronald Levaco