RSSS 150B1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brother 2, Glasnost, Little Vera
16 Nov 2016
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Plays in june 1905 at odessa (black sea), soviet union. Film shows (cid:498)progressive forces(cid:499) vs. imperial forces. Socialist realism, censorship since the early 1930s. More flexibility in the 50s and early 60s. Life filled with violence, tragedy, mystery, but occasionally offers lyrical interludes. People filled with longing and sadness, consumed with thoughts about the past and past losses. Now summer vacation home for artists (state owned) Extended family, important military man, wife, daughter. 1953-1991: khrushchev, brezhnec (thaw and stagnation); gorbachev (glastnost and perestroika) Eisenstein (battleship potemkin: masses, no star roles, montage. Pudovkin (mother, ivan the terrible: studied in 20s, more personal, psychological than eisenstein, bigger roles for stars. The director provides the unity of the film: narrative style. Yeltsin (1991-99: final soviet union years, first freely elected president, transition from socialist to free market economy. Bergan: film as controversial attack on status quo, threat to governments,
