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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.
Contributor:
Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988, compiler, translator.
Lary, N. M., compiler.
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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