RUSS 416

Stalinist Cinema

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Focuses on the interaction of art, mass entertainment and socialist propaganda in the Stalinist film industry. Major films of the time will be analyzed against the background of contemporary political and social developments.

Note: May count towards a Minor in Film Studies. No knowledge of Russian required.

Undergraduate course in Russian offered by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.