I.B.Tauris & Co., 2003. — 128 p. — (Kinofiles Film Companions, 8). — ISBN: 1860646115. Vasili Pichul’s Little Vera was released in 1988 during the early Glasnost years of Gorbachev. With a no-holds-barred screenplay by Pichul’s wife Maria Khmelik, this story of the seamier side of life for ordinary people was a box-office hit and went on to receive the European Film Award for...
Wiley Blackwell, 2016. — 672 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-41276-3. A remarkable collection of essays both film and non-film specialists with an abiding interest in the field. While it covers Russian cinema through three different periods, the Tsarist era, the Soviet period and glasnost, it avoids a schematic chronological fashion. It’s more concerned with recurring themes in the...
London: Reaktion Books, 2008. — 255 p. — ISBN: 9781861895844. The masters of Russian arts and letters are a prestigious fraternity that includes such renowned artists as Tolstoy, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. But alongside these luminaries stands a lesser-known but equally revered figure, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. Robert Bird offers in Andrei Tarkovsky an unprecedented...
Lund: Media-Tryck, 2013. — 315 p. Backgrounds Staging the Problem The Definition and Functions of Myth The City in Cinema A Short Overview of the Cinema of the Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Periods The Myth of Saint Petersburg The Petersburg Myth The Myth’s Transformations in the 1990s Cinematic Petersburg in the Works by Leonid Muratov Coming to terms Methods of the...
Routledge, 2005. — 260 p. — (Soviet Cinema). — ISBN: 0-203-99148-6, 0-415-04950-4. In Eisenstein Rediscovered Ian Christie and Richard Taylor present the first true East-West symposium on Eisenstein with an unparalleled diversity of views and methodologies. Two newly discovered texts by Eisenstein are here translated fro the first time, and all the contributors make extensive...
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0-271-01982-4. Before the Revolt Art and the Intelligentsia Autonomy and Control The Cinematic Field under Brezhnev After the Revolt Liberation and Decay From Masochism to Mythology Appendix: Sources and Methodology List of Informants
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. - 142 p. - ISBN: 0-292-72747-X Preface: Recent Soviet Film — One Critic's Choice The Age Of Perestroika Purging Stalin's Chost From The Film Industry The Romm Connection Beyond the Year of the Rabbit Youth in Turmoil The New Raskolnikov: Dostoevsky Revisited What Do You Want to Do with Your Life, Ivan Miroshnikov? Looking Back: The...
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0813561809; ISBN13: 978-0813561806 — (Jewish Cultures of the World) Even people familiar with cinema believe there is no such thing as a Soviet Holocaust film. The Phantom Holocaust tells a different story. The Soviets were actually among the first to portray these events on screens. In 1938, several films...
London: Wallflower, 2000. — 114 p. — ISBN: 1-903364-04-3. Introduction: the golden age of soviet cinema Lev Kuleshov: the origins of montage in soviet cinema Sergei Eisenstein: the mytho-poetics of revolution Vsevolod Pudovkin: conflict and struggle as film art Dziga Vertov: life 'caught unawares’ Alexander Dovzhenko: Ukrainian nationalist cinema Conclusion: cultural revolution...
Longman, 2003. — 216 p. Russian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov, Paradzhanov, Sokurov and others. The background section assesses the contribution of visual art and music, especially the work of the composers Shostakovich and...
I.B.Tauris & Co., 2010. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1850439877 — (The Kinofiles Filmmaker's Companions, 11) Chapaev is the most popular film of the Soviet era. Directed by Georgi and Sergei Vasilev, it tells of the legendary exploits of the Red Army Commander Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev during the Russian Civil War. Its greatest fan was Joseph Stalin, who saw it 38 times at late-night...
Tartu 2012, p. 280 Because of his rejection of socio-political engagement, Vladimir Nabokov is often regarded as a virtuouso artist of the ivory-tower variety, aloof from the contemporary march of the minds. Marina Grishakova's book, however, points to the relationship between his narrative techniques and some of the scientific, metaphysical, and ethical ideas on the inner...
AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS, 2000 p.281 In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen Gundle observes, the PCI was...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 188 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Film) — ISBN10: 0521021073; ISBN13: 978-0521021074 Inside Soviet Film Satire is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American, and Canadian scholars and film commentators. It is the first in-depth examination of an important genre within the Soviet film tradition. From its...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. — 287 p. Introduction: Period of Adjustment Glasnost: Back to the Present Back to the Present: (Re)presenting the Soviet Past in Feature Films "We Are Your Children": Soviet Youth, Cinema, and Changing Values "Wherever Will I Begin?" Soviet Women in Cinema and on Film Glasnost: Down with Stuttering Is It Easy to Be Honest? Glasnost...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. — 331 p. A Note on References A Note on Transliteration A Martyred Artist? Shaping an Aesthetics of Cinema Working Methods Beginnings: The Steamroller and the Violin and Ivan's Childhood Andrei Roublev Solaris Mirror Stalker Nostalghia The Sacrifice Imprinted Time: The Development of a Style The Image: Indivisible and Elusive Life as...
London; New York: I. B. Tarius Publishers, 2001. — ISBN: 1-86064-568-2. General Editor's Preface The Golden Age Cinema Before October The Birth of the Soviet Film Industry The Films of the Golden Age, 1925-9 Reaching the People, 1925-9 The Age of Stalin The Cultural Revolution in Cinema The Industry, 1933-41 Censorship, 1933-41 Socialist Realism, 1933-41 Films of World War II...
London, 2003. — 133 p. Written for cineastes and students alike, KINOfiles are readable, authoritative, illustrated companion handbooks to the most important and interesting films to emerge from Russian cinema from its beginnings to the present. Each KINOfile investigates the production, context and reception of the film and the people who made it, and analyses the film itself...
Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris, 2002. — 424 p. Second edition. Originally published as Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Preface and Acknowledgments The Melting of the Ice The Waning of the Brezhnev Era Perestroika in the Film Factory Learning a New Game: khozraschet Serving the Muse or the People? Spring Waters and Mud Off the Shelf...
Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2005. — 255 p. — ISBN10: 1-904048-49-8. A concise study of the work of the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 1970s Considering the whole of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, this book covers everything from the classic student film The Steamroller and the Violin,...
London: I.B.Tauris, 2010. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1848850093; ISBN13: 978-1848850095. When the Bolsheviks seized power in the Soviet Union during 1917, they were suffering from a substantial political legitimacy deficit. Uneasy political foundations meant that cinema became a key part of the strategy to protect the existence of the USSR. Based on extensive archival research, this...
Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN10: 0253026962; ISBN13: 978-0253026965 Following Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw became known for its relative political and cultural liberalization; its films, formally innovative and socially engaged, were swept...
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2001. — 50 p. This booklet was prepared in conjunction with a retrospective of Soviet New Wave films screened at the Carnegie Museum of Art as part of the third annual Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium in May-June 2001. The Unknown New Wave: Soviet Cinema of the Sixties. Alexander Prokhorov. Landscape, with Hero. Evgenii Margolit.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 240 p. Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 744 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). — ISBN10: 0810860724. — ISBN13: 978-0810860728. Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia's last tsar and underwent several periods of...
Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014 — 314 p. — ISBN10: 0253010950; ISBN13: 978-0253010957. This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and...
Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2009. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1841502820; ISBN13: 978-1841502823. Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and interviews with surviving film crew members, The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov...
New York: Hill and Wang, 1973. - 208 p. Originally published as Le Cinéma Soviétique par ceux qui l’ont fait , by Les Editeurs Français Réunis, Paris 1, in 1966. David Robinson: Introduction Yutkevich. Teenage Artists of the Revolution Eisenstein. ‘Wie sag’ ich’s meinem Kind?’ and My First Film Alexandrov. Working with Eisenstein Kuleshov. The Origins of Montage Vertov....
New York: Aldine de Gruyer, 1993. — 278 p. Theoretical and Historical Introduction Social Reality and Ideology in Interaction State, Ideology, and Film in Soviet History Soviet Movies in the Revolutionary Period (1918 — 1928): Cordial Acceptance of Official Ideology Soviet Movies in the Aftermath of the October Revolution: The Civil War The Partial Restoration of Capitalism (...
Madison W.I.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 — 326 p. — ISBN10: 0299296547; ISBN13: 978-0299296544. Sergei Parajanov (1924 – 90) flouted the rules of both filmmaking and society in the Soviet Union and paid a heavy personal price. An ethnic Armenian in the multicultural atmosphere of Tbilisi, Georgia, he was one of the most innovative directors of postwar Soviet...
Trans. by Kitty H. Blair, with an Introduction by Philip Strick. — London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1991. — 188 p. Introduction. The Re-shaping of Rublëv Translator's Note The Buffoon: Summer 1400 Youth: Winter 1401 The Hunt: Summer 1403 Summons to the Kremlin: Winter 1405 The Argument: Summer, Autumn, Winter, 1405 The Blinding: Summer 1407 The Festival: Spring 1408 The Last...
Translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair. — University of Texas Press, 1989. — 256 p. Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema-hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most important director of our time"-died an exile in Paris in December 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both his life and work. Since Ivan's Childhood won...
New Haven: Yale University Press — 2003 — 272 p — ISBN10: 0300092911; ISBN13: 978-0300092912. In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable" space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territory of the Soviet Union. This text...
London; New York: I. B. Tarius Publishers, 2000. — 267 p. — ISBN: 1-86064-550-X. KINO: The Russian Cinema Series. General Editor’s Preface The Big Sleep, 1953-56 The Fallen Idol Beat the Devil Modem Times The Rules of the Game, 1957-59 The Best Years of Our Lives Great Expectations The Grand Illusion, 1960-64 Children of Paradise Lost Horizon Kameradschaft Meet John Doe Strange...
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