The cinema of Yakov Protazanov / F. Booth Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, F. Booth, author.

Series:

Global Film Directors Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career spanning three decades. Called "the Russian D.W. Griffith" in the 1910s for his formative role in the first movies in the last years of the Russian Empire, he fled the Civil War and maintained a successful career in Europe before making an unusual decision to return to Russia now under Soviet power. There his films continued their remarkable success with audiences undergoing a bewildering and often brutal revolutionary transformation. Rather than treating him as an indistinct, if capable craftsman, The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov argues that his films are suffused with a unique creative vision that reflects both his mindset as a traditional Russian intellectual and his experience of dislocation and migration after 1917. As he adapted his films to revolutionary culture, they intermingled different voices and reinterpreted his past work from a disavowed era. Offering fresh perspectives of Protazanov’s films, the book will give readers a new appreciation of his career. The book offers a uniquely valuable vantage point from which to explore how cinema reflected a society in transformation and a seminal moment in the development of cinematic art.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

INTRODUCTION A Proto-and Protean Filmmaker

1 A MOBILE CAREER

2 THE POLITICS OF LITERARY ADAPTATION

3 REVOLUTIONARY(-ERA) TRADITIONALISM

4 ABROAD AT HOME

5 MAKING COMEDY SERIOUS

6 THE DIDACTIC VOICE FROM TOLSTOY TO LENIN

CONCLUSION

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781978839175

1978839170

OCLC:

1427283324