Woman with a movie camera : [my life as a Russian filmmaker] / Marina Goldovskaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis ; foreword by Robert Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldovskai︠a︡, M. (Marina)

Series:

Constructs series

Constructs

Standardized Title:

Zhenshchina s kinoapparatom. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Goldovskai︠a︡, M. (Marina).

Goldovskai︠a︡, M.

Goldovskai͡a, Marina Evseevna.

Motion picture producers and directors--Soviet Union--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation).

Motion picture producers and directors--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Soviet Union--Biography.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 263 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Summary:

Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than one hundred programs for Russian, European, Japanese, and American television. Her work, which includes the award-winning films The House on Arbat Street, The Shattered Mirror, and Solovki Power, has garnered international acclaim and won virtually every prize given for documentary filmmaking.

In Woman with a Movie Camera, Goldovskaya turns her lens on her own life and work, telling an adventurous, occasionally harrowing story of growing up in the Stalinist era and subsequently documenting Russian society from the 1960s, through the Thaw and Perestroika, to post-Soviet Russia. She recalls her childhood in a Moscow apartment building that housed famous filmmakers, being one of only three women students at the State Film School, and working as an assistant cameraperson on the first film of Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia's most celebrated director. Reviewing her professional filmmaking career, which began in the 1960s, Goldovskaya reveals her passion for creating films that presented a truthful picture of Soviet life, as well as the challenges of working within (and sometimes subverting) the bureaucracies that controlled Russian film and television production and distribution. Along the way, she describes a host of notable figures in Russian film, theater, art, and politics, as well as the technological evolution of filmmaking from film to video to digital media. A compelling portrait of a woman who broke gender and political barriers, as well as the eventful four decades of Russian history she has documented, Woman with a Movie Camera will be fascinating reading for a wide audience.

Contents:

Father 15

Childhood 18

Our House 22

Bolshevo 28

Those Times 32

I Will Be a Camerawoman 36

Where to Next? 45

Lessons of Television 51

Teaching 54

The Weavers 58

My First Film Portrait 65

Professional Infatuations 68

Them 73

The Ordeal 83

Compromises 91

Sharp Angles 96

On the Threshold of Change 100

Arkhangelsk Muzhik 107

Oleg Efremov 121

Solovki Power 124

Life Is More Talented Than We Are 157

Perestroika: Another Life 162

A Taste of Freedom 168

Once More about Scripts 177

Earthquake 180

The House on Arbat Street 183

Life with a Camera 194

Technology and Creativity 198

The Prince 202

On Ethics 213

Life with a Camera (Continued) 216

Documentary Trip 218

Filmography of Marina Goldovskaya 227

Appendix Notable Figures in Soviet Filmmaking and Other Arts 233.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes filmography: pages [227]-231.

Translated from the Russian.

ISBN:

0292714645

0292713436

OCLC:

65201294

Publisher Number:

9780292714649

9780292713437

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