The Russian cinema reader. Volume one, 1908 to the Stalin era / edited by Rimgaila Salys.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salys, Rimgaila.

Series:

Cultural Syllabus

Cultural syllabus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--History--20th century.

Russia.

Motion pictures--Russia--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Russia--History.

Motion pictures--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Motion pictures--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Other Title:

1908 to the Stalin era

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, Stalinist Cinema, Cinema of the Thaw, Cinema of Stagnation, Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema) outline its cinematic significance and provide historical context for the non-specialist reader. Essays are accompanied by suggestions for further reading. The reader will be useful both for film studies specialists and for Slavists who wish to broaden their Russian Studies curriculum by incorporating film courses or culture courses with cinematic material. Volumes one and two may be ordered separately to accommodate the timeframe and contents of courses. Volume one films: Sten'ka Razin, The Cameraman's Revenge, The Merchant Bashkirov's Daughter, Child of the Big City, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Battleship Potemkin, Bed and Sofa, Man with a Movie Camera, Earth, Chapaev, Circus, Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II. Volume two films: The Cranes are Flying, Ballad of a Soldier, Lenin's Guard, Wings, Commissar, The Diamond Arm, White Sun of the Desert, Solaris, Stalker, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Repentance, Little Vera, Burnt by the Sun, Brother, Russian Ark, The Return, Night Watch, The Tuner, Ninth Company, How I Ended This Summer. Authors: Birgit Beumers, Robert Bird, David Bordwell, Mikhail Brashinsky, Oksana Bulgakova, Gregory Carlson, Nancy Condee, Julian Graffy, Jeremy Hicks, Andrew Horton, Steven Hutchings, Vida Johnson, Lilya Kaganovsky, Vance Kepley, Jr., Susan Larsen, Mark Lipovetsky, Tatiana Mikhailova, Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Joan Neuberger, Vlada Petrić, Graham Petrie, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys, Elena Stishova, Vlad Strukov, Yuri Tsivian, Meghan Vicks, Josephine Woll, Denise J. Youngblood

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface / Salys, Rimgaila

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

Part One

Early Russian Cinema 1908-1919 / Youngblood, Denise J.

New Notes on Russian Film Culture between 1908 and 1919 / Tsivian, Yuri

Sten'ka Razin / Salys, Rimgaila

The Cameraman's Revenge/Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora / Salys, Rimgaila

The Merchant Bashkirov's Daughter/Doch' kuptsa Bashkirova / Salys, Rimgaila

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 / Bulgakova, Oksana

Part Two

Soviet Silent Cinema 1918-1930 / Youngblood, Denise J.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks/Neobychainye prikliucheniia mistera Vesta v strane bol'shevikov

Mr. Kuleshov in the Land of the Modernists / Kepley, Vance

A Subtextual Reading of Kuleshov's Satire The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) / Petrić, Vlada

Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potemkin

Introduction / Neuberger, Joan / Salys, Rimgaila

Monumental Heroics: The Silent Films / Bordwell, David

Bed and Sofa/Tret'ia Meshchanskaia

Bed and Sofa / Graffy, Julian

Life into Art: Laying Bare the Theme in Bed and Sofa / Salys, Rimgaila

Man with a Movie Camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom / Hicks, Jeremy

Earth/Zemlia

Earth / Kepley, Vance

Part Three

Stalinist Cinema 1928-1953 / Kaganovsky, Lilya

Chapaev

Chapaev / Hutchings, Steven

The Elements and Consciousness: The Commander and the Commissar / Bulgakova, Oksana

Circus/Tsirk / Salys, Rimgaila

Ivan the Terrible/Ivan Groznyi / Neuberger, Joan

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 9, 2014).

ISBN:

979-88-87193-65-6

1-61811-213-9

OCLC:

1135592174