SLAV 525

Fall 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 23-Dec 8

Problems in Slavic Literature

Credit: 4 hours.

Selected subjects in Russian and Slavic prose, poetry, drama, and literary criticism. Topics vary.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

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SLAV 525 class schedule data for fall 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	38772	Online	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	F	n.a.	Kaganovsky, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Russian & Soviet Cinema Section Info: SOVIET CINEMA: FROM AVANT-GARDE TO SOCIALIST REALISM This course will begin with the Golden Age of Soviet cinema: the period 1924-1929 during which Soviet filmmakers produced some of the greatest films in the history of the cinema. Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Esfir Shub, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko became known the world over for their radically innovative approaches to cinematography and montage. Their films were revolutionary both in form and content and reflected the period of radical social and political transformation that followed the 1917 Russian Revolution. From the revolutionary twenties, we will then move to what became known as the Great Turning Point: the years 1928-1932 that witnessed the transition from avant-garde art to Socialist Realism. This period was also marked by the coming of sound to cinema that altered the ways movies were made and received. Sound technology introduced the new genre of the musical comedy, as well as bringing the “voice of power” to screens to directly address the mass viewer. In the last part of the course we will look at the the different genres and styles from the 1930s that helped form the canon of Stalinist film.