Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of
stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This
book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as
mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new
genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television
developed a parallel system of genres where television texts
celebrated conservative consensus while films manifested symptoms
of ideological and social crises. The book examines the genres of
state-sponsored epic films, police procedural, comedy and
melodrama, and outlines how television gradually emerged as the
major form of Russo-Soviet popular culture. Through close analysis
of well-known film classics of the period as well as less familiar
films and television series, this groundbreaking work helps to
deconstruct the myth of this era as a time of cultural and economic
stagnation and also helps us to understand the persistence of this
myth in the collective memory of Putin-era Russia. This monograph
is the first book-length English-language study of film and
television genres of the late Soviet era.
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