Soviet Cinema

Name: Reese Tan Lea Keng
Module: M08 Visual Culture
Academic Tutor: Val Hill


Cinema has been the predominant popular art form of the first half of the twentieth century, at least in Europe and North America. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the Soviet Union, where Lenin’s remark that “of all the arts for us cinema is the most important” has become a cliché and where cinema attendances today are still amongst the highest in the world.
In the age of mass politics Soviet Cinema has developed from a fragile but effective tool to gain support among the overwhelmingly illiterate peasant masses in the Civil War that followed the October 1917 Revolution, through a welter of experimentation into a mass weapon of propaganda through entertainment that shaped the public image of the Soviet Union- both at home and abroad and for both elite and mass audiences.

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