Denise J Youngblood: 3 books
Cinematic Cold War
The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat. As Tony Shaw and Denise Youngblood show, Hollywood sought to export American ideals in movies like Rambo, and the Soviet film industry fought...
by Denise J. Youngblood
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov. Tensions ran high between creative freedom and institutional constraint, radical and reactionary impulses,...
Bondarchuk's War and Peace
Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor's War and Peace, Bondarchuk's surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for hearts and minds....