Real Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw

Abstract

Real Images is first book to investigate, and analyze Soviet cinema of the thaw from aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to late 1960s, during Kruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry and filmmakers strove to satisfy audiences' hunger for films, while accommodating political mood shifts that characterized period. Film and filmmakers played a critical role in Soviet Union's attempts to get out from underneath Stalinist ideology.