Drawing the Iron Curtain : : Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation /

Drawing the Iron Curtain : : Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation / / Maya Balakirsky Katz.

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
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Katz, Maya Balakirsky,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 109 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction: Puppeteering a Self in the Soviet Union
  • 1. Behind the Scenes: Jews and the Studio System, 1919-1989
  • 2. Black and White: Race in Soviet Animation
  • 3. The Brumberg Sisters: The Fairy Grandmothers of Soviet Animation
  • 4. Big-City Jews: Setting and Censoring the Modern Fairy Tale
  • 5. Tropical Russian Bears: Cheburashka's Jewish Roots
  • 6. The Pioneer's Violin: Animating the Soviet Holocaust
  • 7. Cartoon Cosmopolitans: Drawing Jews into Soviet Culture
  • 8. Tale of Tales: The Rise of the Jewish Auteur Director
  • Conclusion: Tell-Tale Signs and Soviet Jewish Animation
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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