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Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception

By Yuri Tsivian, Richard Taylor Copyright 2014
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets,... Read more

Foreword Tom Gunning  Introduction  Part 1  1. Early Cinema Architecture and the Evolution of the Social Composition of Cinema  2. Projection Technique as a Factor in Aesthetic Perception  3. The Acoustics of Cinema Performance  4. The Reception of Interference  Part 2  5. Shifting Textual Boundaries  6. The Reception of the Moving Image  7. The Reception of Narrative Categories  8. The Reception of Narrative Devices.  Postscript

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Yuri Tsivian, Richard Taylor