TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dumančić,Marko
TI  - Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties 
SN  - 9781487505974
U1  - 791.43/65211 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - History.0(OCoLC)fst01411628
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01011041
KW  - Masculinity in popular culture
KW  - Masculinity in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01011042
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Masculinity--Soviet Union--History--20th century
KW  - Masculinity. (OCoLC)fst01011027
KW  - Men in motion pictures
KW  - Men in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01016057
KW  - Men in popular culture
KW  - Men in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01016058
KW  - Men
KW  - Identity
KW  - Men--Identity. (OCoLC)fst01016008
KW  - Men--Soviet Union--Identity--History--20th century
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures--Soviet Union--History--20th century
KW  - Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
KW  - Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1960s cinema
KW  - Khrushchev
KW  - Stalin
KW  - de-Stalinization
KW  - gender studies
KW  - global sixties
KW  - masculinity and film
KW  - masculinity crisis
KW  - soviet film
KW  - soviet masculinity
KW  - thaw
KW  - world cinema
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction Soviet Men in Need of Saving? --; Chapter One What Was Stalinist Masculinity and Why Did It Change? --; Chapter Two Being a Dad Is Not for Sissies --; Chapter Three Fathers versus Sons, or, the Great Soviet Family in Trouble --; Chapter Four The Trouble with Women: Consumerism and the Death of Rugged Masculinity --; Chapter Five Our Friend the Atom? Science as a Threat to Masculinity --; Chapter Six De-Heroization and the Pan-European Masculinity Crisis --; Epilogue The End of the Long Sixties and the Fate of the Superfluous Man --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531843
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487531843
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487531843/original
ER  -