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Eisensteins Erben: Der sowjetische Film vom Tauwetter zur Perestroika (1953-1991).(Book Review)
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The Modern Language Review
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January 1, 2004| Author:
Taylor, Richard
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Eisensteins Erben: Der sowjetische Film vom Tauwetter zur Perestroika (1953-1991). Ed. by EVA BINDER and CHRISTINE ENGEL. (Slavica Aenipontana, 8) Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beitrage zur Kulturwissenschaft. 2002. xiv+404pp. 970. ISBN 3-85124-198-3.
This volume covers a crucially under-researched period in the history of Soviet cinema. Josephine Woll's recent Reel Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw (London: Tauris, 2000) was the first English-language study of the Thaw period...
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