The Masters
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Chapter Three discusses the implications of the director-centered mode of film production and suggests why entrusting self-governance and self-censorship to a select group of director-masters was counterproductive. The Soviet film industry did not have producers, and only directors had the creative and technical expertise to make films. This unique expertise, which was hard to replicate, as well as their status as “engineers of human souls,” put Soviet film directors in a formidable position vis-à-vis the party-state. Moreover, most of them were not propagandists, but artists, and their professional agenda was never entirely subsumed by Stalinism.
2021 ◽
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2015 ◽
Vol 22
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pp. 648-663
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‘They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film’: Film Finances and the American ‘Runaways’ That Ran Away
2021 ◽
Vol 18
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pp. 176-197
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New Wave
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2019 ◽
pp. 165-181