Revolt of the Filmmakers: The Struggle for Artistic Autonomy and the Fall of the Soviet Film Industry

by George Faraday

One of the many unforeseen consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union has been the sudden collapse of the domestic film industry, probably the most privileged mass cultural medium of the Soviet Union. By the mid-1980s, some 150 feature films were produced annually for audiences numbering nearly four billion per year. Since 1991, however, cinema attendance has plummeted by a factor of at least one hundred, and the remnants of the once huge audiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019832
• ISBN13: 9780271019833
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"