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The Alexander Medvedkin reader / compiled by Alexander Medvedkin, Jay Leyda, and Nikita Lary ; translated and edited by Nikita Lary and Jay Leyda.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.M433 A44 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medvedkin, Alexander, author.
- Series:
- Cinema and modernity
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Medvedkin, Alexander.
- Motion pictures--Soviet Union.
- Motion pictures.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 356 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- On the front lines of war and revolution
- Cavalry days
- The kino-train: 294 days on wheels
- Soldiers shooting films
- Scripts
- A little log
- Stop thief!
- Fruit and vegetables
- A cock and bull story
- Hey fool, what a fool you are!
- Tit
- Look what love did!
- A crazy locomotive
- "The unholy force"
- "Gogol"
- Satire : a militant art
- The elation of fighting (ca. 1985)
- Satire: an assailant's weapon (ca. 1966)
- Bronze monuments
- Springboards (ca. 1985)
- Contextualizations
- Eisenstein on Medvedkin's Chaplinesque genius
- Anatoli Lunacharsky, "film comedy and satire" (excerpt)
- Nikolai Izvolov, "Alexander Medvedkin and the traditions of Russian film"
- Nikita Lary, "history of the Alexander Medvedkin reader"
- CVs and addenda
- First "autobiography": a Bolshevik's CV
- Second "autobiography": a filmmaker's CV
- Marina Goldovskaia, interviews with Medvedkin (excerpts)
- The suppression of happiness
- Color film in happiness
- Remembrance and revival
- The kino-train filmography (trans. Jay Leyda)
- Surviving kino-train films
- Chris Marker, "the last Bolshevik."
- Notes:
- Translated from the Russian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226296135
- 022629613X
- 9780226296272
- 022629627X
- OCLC:
- 944086801
- Publisher Number:
- 40026503688
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