[lbo-talk] more on why movies suck

[wrobert at uci.edu]

My impression was that for the most part, socialist realism shut down most
of the interesting artistic production in the Soviet Union until Kruschev
opened things up a bit in the 50's.  Certainly, Eisenstein didn't profit
from the expectations contained in it, and the Vertov film I saw from the
era was difficult watching to say the least.  Literature also took a
pretty serious hit (Babel, Bulgakov and others could no longer produce
literature).  Charles may have a point that it lead to some interesting
material in the United States, but as far as I can tell, it was primarily
damaging to Soviet art.  (If there are some interesting literary works or
films during this era, I would definitely be interested in finding out
about them... beyond the films that Eisenstein managed to get out at the
time.)  robert wood


> And nobody made better war films than the Soviets.
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> Anyway, I grew up with the stuff and I thought it was great. As for
> socialist realism.... it was no less degraded than most Hollywood formula
> movies.
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> Joanna
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