Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Revolutionary Rupture and National Stability 1 Part One 1 Kino-Nedelia, Early Documentary, and the Performance of a New Collective, 1917–1921 37 2 A Cinema Looking for People: The Individual and the Collective in Immediate Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nonfiction Film 58 Part Two 3 The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922–1927 89 4 (Non)Alignments and the New Revolutionary Man 117 Part Three 5 Esfir Shub, Factography, and the New Documentary Historiography 155 6 The Object of Revolutionary History: Santiago Álvarez’s Commemorative Newsreels and Chronicle Documentaries, 1972–1974 189 Notes 217 Bibliography 239 Filmography 259 Index 267 CONTENTS This page intentionally left blank ...