The Russian Cinema Reader : : Volume I, 1908 to the Stalin Era /

The Russian Cinema Reader : : Volume I, 1908 to the Stalin Era / / ed. by Rimgaila Salys.

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bordwell, David,
Bulgakova, Oksana,
Graffy, Julian,
Hicks, Jeremy,
Hutchings, Steven,
Kaganovsky, Lilya,
Kepley, Vance,
Neuberger, Joan,
Petrić, Vlada,
Salys, Rimgaila,
Tsivian, Yuri,
Youngblood, Denise J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Salys, Rimgaila,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cultural Syllabus
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Image Credits
  • Part One
  • Early Russian Cinema 1908-1919
  • New Notes on Russian Film Culture between 1908 and 1919
  • Sten’ka Razin
  • The Cameraman’s Revenge/Mest’ kinematograficheskogo operatora
  • The Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter/Doch’ kuptsa Bashkirova
  • Child of the Big City/Ditia bol’shogo goroda
  • Introduction
  • The Scheherezade of the Boulevard Novel. A Piquant Mix of the Vulgar and the Proper
  • Part Two
  • Soviet Silent Cinema 1918-1930
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks/Neobychainye prikliucheniia mistera Vesta v strane bol’shevikov
  • Introduction
  • Mr. Kuleshov in the Land of the Modernists
  • A Subtextual Reading of Kuleshov’s Satire The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
  • Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potemkin
  • Introduction
  • Monumental Heroics: The Silent Films
  • Bed and Sofa/Tret’ia Meshchanskaia
  • Introduction
  • Bed and Sofa
  • Life into Art: Laying Bare the Theme in Bed and Sofa
  • Man with a Movie Camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom
  • Earth/Zemlia
  • Introduction
  • Earth
  • Part Three
  • Stalinist Cinema 1928-1953
  • Chapaev
  • Introduction
  • Chapaev
  • The Elements and Consciousness: The Commander and the Commissar
  • Circus/Tsirk
  • Ivan the Terrible/Ivan Groznyi

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