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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.
The collection brings together cinema historians and film critics from Britain, France, the USA and Russia to re-examine Soviet film and reassess Cold War historiographic assumptions. As well as providing new perspectives and source material on the much mythologised figures of Kuleshov and Medvekin, the book also provides the first extended accounts in English of the careers of directors Yakov Protazanov and Boris Barnett.
"Inside the Film Factory" reveals the subtle interplay between cinema as an industry and as an arm of the state, as mass entertainment and as propaganda. It is essential reading for both historians of Soviet culture and film scholars.
| General Editors' Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
| Note on Transliteration and Translation | p. xix |
| Introduction Entering the Film Factory | p. 1 |
| Early Russian Cinema: Some Observations | p. 7 |
| Kuleshov's Experiments and the New Anthropology of the Actor | p. 31 |
| Intolerance and the Soviets: a Historical Investigation | p. 51 |
| The Origins of Soviet Cinema: a Study in Industry Development | p. 60 |
| Down to Earth: Aelita Relocated | p. 80 |
| The Return of the Native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet Cinema | p. 103 |
| A Face to the Shtetl: Soviet Yiddish Cinema, 1924-36 | p. 124 |
| A Fickle Man, or Portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet Director | p. 151 |
| Interview with Alexander Medvedkin | p. 165 |
| Making Sense of Early Soviet Sound | p. 176 |
| Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s | p. 193 |
| Notes | p. 217 |
| Index | p. 248 |
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ISBN: 9780415115957
ISBN-10: 0415115957
Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 280
Published: 3rd November 1994
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.03 x 16.2
x 1.68
Weight (kg): 0.6
Edition Number: 1
