Federal cinema: the Soviet film industry, 1924-32.

The article focuses on the film industry in the Soviet Union, from 1924 to 1932. An official reform program, or perestroika, which was initiated in 1986, was designed to lessen the power of the Moscow-centred film bureaucracy, only encouraged the filmmaking community to push for more rapid and thorough decentralisation. It states that the concept of national cinema remains central to film studies and has been used to cover issues ranging from how institutions make and distribute films within a particular national boundary to how a body of films might appeal to an imaginary national identity. It is inferred that ethnic and cultural diversity competed with geography to discourage centralisation in the new Soviet film industry.