This volume explores the cinema of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, ranging from the pre-Revolution-ary period to the present day. It offers an insight into the development of Soviet film, from 'the most important of all arts' as a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era, from the rise of its 'dissident' art-house cinema in the 1960s through the glasnost era with its broken taboos to recent Russian blockbusters. Films have been chosen to represent both the classics of Russian and Soviet cinema as well as those films that had a more localised success and remain to date part of Russia's cultural reference system. The volume also covers a range of national film industries of the former Soviet Union in chapters on the greatest films and directors of Ukrainian, Kazakh, Georgian and Armenian cinematography. Films discussed include Strike (1925), Earth (1930), Ivan's Childhood (1962), Mother and Son (1997) and Brother (1997).
(Nov. 2007)
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The latest in Wallflower's excellent 24 Frames series, each of which examines a national (or regional) cinema by commenting on two-dozen selected movies. Typically, the Russian volume - edited by Birgit Bemuers, introduced by Sergei Bordov ( Prisoner of the Mountains) and covering 1916 to the present - avoids, where possible, the too obvious, or too voluminously written-about: thus we have Richard Taylor on Eisenstein's Strike rather than Battleship Potemkin; Natasha Synessios on Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood rather than Andrei Rublev. Typically, too, the thematic content is rich, if - in the context of ten-page articles - succinct and introductory.Of the stuff I know, Ian Christie writes exemplary summations of Lev Kuleshov's influential 1924 agitprop adventure Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks and Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark, as does Anthony Anemone of Aleksei German's long-banned My Friend Ivan Lapshin, but there are equally interesting and informative pieces on (even) more obscure movies, from the musical Carnival Night to animations like Norstein's Tale of Tales. It's obvious that the writers are drawn from the academic pool, but in the main, they show an enviable ability to address and appeal to a wider, if still serious, audience.
(Wally Hammond Time Out March-June 2008)An excellent introduction to some of the leading Russian and Soviet filmmakers and films... Highly recommended.
(Choice )A welcome and useful contribution... it would make an excellent textbook for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema.
(Seth Graham Russian Review )Valuable supplementary reading... the collection is significant because it provides an excellent introduction to the cinema of the former Soviet Union.
(Elena Baraban Canadian Slavonic Papers )Review
Lucidly written, vibrant, insightful, elegant and imaginative, these essays lead the reader - advanced as well as newcomer - into the depths of the best Russian and Soviet films and provide fascinating reading. Birgit Beumers has gathered in this volume the leading scholars who are working currently in the field. Using the most powerful images encoded in this cinema, the authors enable us not only to experience Russian and Soviet values and sensibilities but also to take part in the process of reconceptualisation of these great movies that are so finely analyzed in this volume.
(Evgeny Dobrenko,, University of Sheffield )
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Since the rediscovery of his films at the Eighth Festival of Silent Cinema in Pordenone, Italy, in 1989, the pre-Revolutionary Russian director Evgenii Bauer (1867-1917) has come to be seen not only as the major filmmaker of his era but also as a figure of fundamental importance in the history and development of Russian and Soviet film and world cinema. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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