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of the thirties, focusing here on the role film actors played as "minor functionaries in the court of King Joseph" (p. 83). Ekaterina Khokhiova's essay on "Forbidden Films of the 1930s" is a pio- neering attempt, based on extensive archival research, to consider the importance of those movies that virtually no one ever saw. Finally, Maya Turovskaya's discussion of 'Soviet Films of the Cold War" demonstrates why she is the doyenne of Russian film scholars. A few of the essays are in-depth examinations of one or two films. The chapter "Grigory Alexandrov's The Radiant Path° by the late Maria Enzenberger (to whom this volume is dedi- cated) is a fresh and insightful analysis. Likewise, Leonid Kozlov's "T,he Artist and the Shadow of Ivan," on Eisenshtein's struggle to make Ivan the Terrible "his way," is a stellar example of how socio-historical criticism is as important as textual analysis. Svetlana Boym, in "Soviet Documen - tary Mythologies of the 1980s," examines the paradoxes of the Stalin cult in the Gorbachev era by focusing on I Served in Staiin's Bodyguard and Is Stalin with Us?. Julian Graffy offers a chal- lenging perspective on the "unshelved films" phenomenon by comparing two of
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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