{"product_id":"drawing-the-iron-curtain-maya-balakirsky-katz-9780813576626","title":"Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation","description":"In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. \u003ci\u003eDrawing the Iron Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm brought together Jewish creative personnel from every corner of the Soviet Union and served as an unlikely haven for dissidents who were banned from working in other industries. Surveying a wide range of Soviet animation produced between 1919 and 1989, from cutting-edge art films like \u003ci\u003eTale of Tales\u003c\/i\u003e to cartoons featuring \"Soviet Mickey Mouse\" Cheburashka, she finds that these works played a key role in articulating a cosmopolitan sensibility and a multicultural vision for the Soviet Union. Furthermore, she considers how Jewish filmmakers used animation to depict distinctive elements of their heritage and ethnic identity, whether producing films about the Holocaust or using fellow Jews as models for character drawings. Providing a copiously illustrated introduction to many of Soyuzmultfilm's key artistic achievements, while revealing the tumultuous social and political conditions in which these films were produced, \u003ci\u003eDrawing the Iron Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e has something to offer animation fans and students of Cold War history alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maya Balakirsky Katz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813576628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813576626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.03h x 7.03w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016 pg. 89","brand":"Maya Balakirsky Katz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131260039423,"sku":"9780813576626","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f55ff816-6484-4319-b874-05cfda1f55fb.jpg?v=1687473859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drawing-the-iron-curtain-maya-balakirsky-katz-9780813576626","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}