MLT 265 - Soviet and Russian Film Revolutions: Political, Social, Cultural

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) At its inception, Soviet film was intertwined with political revolution. In masterpieces such as Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin and Pudovkin’s Mother, film directors sought to portray the Bolshevik take-over as a legitimate and inevitable response to oppression. Who could imagine that the same country would produce Little Vera, a film about the sexual revolution of the 1980’s or Brother, a hero-story about assassins? This course will follow the trajectory of Soviet and Russian cinema from the 1917 Revolution to the present day, as it was used to chronicle social and cultural upheavals. CC: HUM, LCC