In 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.
| ISBN: | 9781501709944 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 2017 |
| Author: | Maria Belodubrovskaya |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 266 pages |
| Genres: |
Film: styles and genres Film: styles and genres Film history, theory or criticism European history Political ideologies and movements Far-left political ideologies and movements |