Slatan Dudow: from Yuchbunar district to Metropolis
Slatan Dudow: from Yuchbunar district to Metropolis
Author(s): Aleksandar DonevSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: biographical; ideological transformation; 1920s; Nasheto kino; art as a catalyst for social change
Summary/Abstract: The paper studies the early period of the social and ideological growth of the important German director of Bulgarian origin, Slatan Dudow. He is the author of Kuhle Wampe (1932), a pioneering example of proletarian cinema in Western Europe, and one of the founders of DEFA. Based on a study of archival documents and early articles by Slatan Dudow, published in the Bulgarian magazine Nasheto Kino (Our Cinema), the paper questions the cliché of socialist historiography about the future filmmaker’s acceptance of communist ideas since his early teens.
Journal: Изкуствоведски четения
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 312-320
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
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