Maya Balakirsky Katz

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm served as an unlikely haven for political dissidents and brought together Jewish creative personnel from across the land. These artists used the studio to depict distinctive elements of their heritage and ethnic identity, while articulating a cosmopolitan sensibility and a multicultural vision for the Soviet Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 184mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780813577012
• ISBN-10: 0813577012
• Artikelnr.: 44216735

Autorenporträt

MAYA BALAKIRSKY KATZ is a professor and chair of the art history department at Touro College, in New York. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad and the editor of Revising Dreyfus. 

Inhaltsangabe

         List of Illustrations
         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 Fairytale
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
         Glossary
         Filmography
         Index