1st Edition
Inside the Film Factory New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital task of scrutinising Soviet film, and re-examining the Cold War assumptions of traditional... Read more
Illustrations, Notes on contributors, Notes on contributions, General editors’ preface, Acknowledgements, Note on transliteration and translation, Introduction: Entering the film factory, 1 Early Russian cinema: some observations, 2 Kuleshov’s experiments and the new anthropology of the actor, 3 Intolerance and the Soviets: a historical investigation, 4 The origins of Soviet cinema: a study in industry development, 5 Down to earth: Aelita relocated, 6 The return of the native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet cinema, 7 A face to the shtetl: Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924—36, 8 A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet director, 9 Interview with Alexander Medvedkin, 10 Making sense of early Soviet sound, 11 Ideology as mass entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet cinema in the 1930s, Notes, Index
Biography
Richard Taylor, Ian Christie, Professor Richard Taylor
`It is a valiant and long-overdue project.'
