{"product_id":"soviet-factography-devin-fore-9780226234861","title":"Soviet Factography: Reality Without Realism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA study of Soviet factography, an avant-garde movement that employed photography, film, journalism, and mass media technologies.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures, illuminating factography's position in the material culture of the early Soviet period and situating it as a precursor to the genre of documentary that arose in the 1930s. Factographers employed photography and film practices in their campaign to inscribe facts and to chronicle modernization as it transformed human experience and society. Fore considers factography in light of the period's explosion of new media technologies--including radio broadcasting, sound in film, and photo-media innovations--that allowed the press to transform culture on a massive scale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This theoretically driven study uses material from Moscow archives and little-known sources to highlight factography as distinct from documentary and Socialist Realism and to establish it as one of the major twentieth-century avant-garde forms. Fore covers works of photography, film, literature, and journalism together in his considerations of Soviet culture, the interwar avant-gardes, aesthetics, and the theory of documentary. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Devin Fore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022623486X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226234861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Devin Fore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46070425977087,"sku":"9780226234861","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab37d01c-fb3b-4eaa-b7bd-9732568e44dd.jpg?v=1724243230","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soviet-factography-devin-fore-9780226234861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}