Kniha Enemy on Trial Julie A. Cassiday

Enemy on Trial

Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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Attempting to indoctrinate the public into a new society, the Bolsheviks staged "show trials" - lega...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2000
Stránek
270
EAN
9780875802664
ISBN
0875802664
Enbook ID
04750073
Hmotnost
28
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 24

Kompletní popis

Attempting to indoctrinate the public into a new society, the Bolsheviks staged "show trials" - legal trials that incorporated theatrical elements such as coached defendants, memorized scripts for confession, and gruelling interrogatory "rehearsals". This genre of legal spectacle, whose origins lay in Soviet theatre and cinema of the 1920s, moved from mass public spectacles to the courtroom, as the Bolsheviks sought to effect ever greater social change. In this interdisciplinary study, literature scholar Cassiday argues that the trials deliberately used avant-garde drama and cinema to educate the citizenry about the new social order. This work examines how elements of theatre and film were incorporated into Soviet courtrooms, turning public trials into vehicles for propaganda. Unlike scholars who have emphasized either the performative or the legal aspects of show trials, she gives equal weight to both. Drawing on a variety of popular media from the 1920s, she reveals the origins of the show trials; melodramatic legal discourse built around confession, repentance, and pleas for reintegration into Soviet society. She shows how techniques such as costuming, scripting, out-takes, editing and the framing of shots contributed to the spectacle. Detractors have long discredited the show trials as legal fiction, ultimately throwing into question the legitimacy of the entire Soviet regime. Cassiday shows, however, that the mixture of theatre and the law is not unique to the Soviets, but is a pairing long exhibited in the West as well, in media events like the Nuremberg trials and Scopes "monkey" trial.

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