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The face of Russia / written and hosted by James H. Billington ; produced by Michael Gill ; directed by Murray Grigor.
LIBRA VHS DK32 .F33 1998 pts. 1-3
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852. Mertvye dushi, author.
- Series:
- Home Vision Select.
- Home Vision Select
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852--Film adaptations.
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich.
- Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948--Criticism and interpretation.
- Eisenstein, Sergei.
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Boris Godunov--(1872).
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.
- Gogolʹ, NikolaiÌ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.
- Arts, Russian.
- Icon painting--Russia.
- Icon painting.
- Church architecture--Russia.
- Church architecture.
- Motion pictures--Russia--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Russia.
- History.
- Music--Russia--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Russia--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Television series.
- Television adaptations.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videocassettes (180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Home Vision, [1998]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- Explores the art and culture of Russia in a journey across history, encompassing Russia's architecture, paintings, music, literature and cinema, in an effort to determine if Russia's cultural past will give any clues as to its future and how it solves its problems. Part 1 examines icon painting, the first Russian art form, and reveals the spiritual ideas that have animated Russia for 1000 years, and witnesses recent restorations of churches and monasteries from Kiev to the Kremlin.
- Part 2 examines Russian architecture from Eastern-inspired onion domes to Western-type palaces. Also looks at the work of Gogol who revealed the human suffering behind Russia's facade. His Dead Souls inspired 19th-century radicals and Soviet dissidents, and continues to influence Russian artists today. Part 3 explores Russian music and cinema and looks at how new media forms are shaping Russia today. Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov dramatized the conflict between power and the people. Sergei Eisentsein retold history with silent films of such power that they became more real than actual events.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The face on the firewood
- pt. 2. The facade of power
- pt. 3. Facing the future.
- Notes:
- "Presented in a wide-screen, letterboxed format"--Container.
- Originally released in 1998 as a television series by Malone Gill Productions, the Library of Congress, and WETA Washington, D.C. in association with Public Media, Inc. and Media-Most, Russia.
- Contains:
- Face on the firewood.
- Facade of power.
- Facing the future.
- ISBN:
- 0780020421
- 078002043X
- 0780020448
- 0780020456
- OCLC:
- 39375713
- Publisher Number:
- FAC 030 Home Vision
- FAC 040 Home Vision
- FAC 050 Home Vision
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