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Men out of focus : the Soviet masculinity crisis in the long sixties
- Title
- Men out of focus : the Soviet masculinity crisis in the long sixties / Marko Dumančić.
- Author
- Dumančić, Marko, 1979-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- xv, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period--often described as "The Thaw"--between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists' inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period's most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin."--
- Alternative Title
- Soviet masculinity crisis in the long sixties
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Masculinity in motion pictures
- Masculinity in popular culture
- Men in motion pictures
- Men in popular culture
- Motion pictures > Soviet Union > History > 20th century
- Masculinity > Soviet Union > History > 20th century
- Men > Soviet Union > Identity > History > 20th century
- Masculinity
- Men > Identity
- Motion pictures
- Soviet Union
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Soviet men in need of saving? -- 1. What was Stalinist masculinity and why did it change? -- 2. Being a dad is not for sissies -- 3. Fathers versus sons, or, the great Soviet family in trouble -- 4. The trouble with women: consumerism and the death of rugged masculinity -- 5. Our friend the atom? Science as a threat to masculinity -- 6. De-heroization and the Pan-European masculinity crisis -- Epilogue: the end of the long sixties and the fate of the superfluous man. .
- Call Number
- MFL 21-2192
- ISBN
- 9781487505257
- 1487505256
- 9781487531843
- 1487531842
- OCLC
- 1237268817
- Author
- Dumančić, Marko, 1979- author.
- Title
- Men out of focus : the Soviet masculinity crisis in the long sixties / Marko Dumančić.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-2192