Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
European history, Criticism, Police and military
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
This volume, at once a history of Soviet cinema and a primer on the historiographical analysis of secret police files, provides an interesting multi-disciplinary discussion of the police in film, police as film makers and the criminal as subject in… the darkest corners of the Soviet police state. Arguing that the levels of implicit and explicit control exercised by secret police authorities in Stalin-era Russia created a cultural framework in which art, literature and film, even those not directly affected by the regime, bore the unmistakable mark of their influence. Vatulescu is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)