Manufacturing truth
Subtitle: the documentary moment in early Soviet culture
By: Elizabeth Astrid Papazian.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780875803890
Subjects: Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Documentary films -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism; Socialist realism in literature; Socialist realism in motion pictures; Socialist realism -- Soviet Union; Aesthetics, Russian -- 20th century; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life; Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Authors as engineers : the documentary moment; title: Operative mode : Sergei Tretiakov's art of fact; title: Technological mode : Dziga Vertov and kino-communication; title: Realist mode : Gorky, the truth, and the collective; title: Ironic mode : Mikhail Zoshchenko's reconstruction of the reader; title: A new documentary moment?.