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Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a "mighty instrument of mass agitation and propagandaand strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors.
Maria Belodubrovskaya is Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
"Maria Belodubrovskaya provides a compelling argument that runs counter to received wisdom concerning the repeated failures of the Stalinist cinema industry in meeting the goals mandated by the state organizations overseeing film production. Instead of focusing on the top-down organizational structures of the industry, Belodubrovskaya convincingly locates the source in a bottom-up paradigm that stresses the industry’s failure in developing professional and efficient middle management, on the one hand, and the power of individual director-masters in controlling the entire production process, on the other."
Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago:
"Rich, thoughtful, and information-packed, Not According to Plan will be widely used in academia and beyond. It’s a wonderfully detailed, faultlessly argued, groundbreaking book whose potential impact stretches above the field of film history."
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