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Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film (Princeton Paperbacks) [Hardcover]

Jay Leyda (Author)

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Series: Princeton Paperbacks | Publication Date: July 1983

It is primarily in the Soviet Union that the film has been used with a consciousness of its persuasive powers, and this history gives a full account of the film's development as an art in ihr service of that society.

Concluding with the problems of the present, this first comprehensive history of the lilm in Russia begins with the Lumieres film-ing of the last Tsar's coronation in 1896. For
the first time full attention l given to the large and important RusMan lilm industry before the revolution ol l ( Hl\ and to its many links with tiic emerging Soviet film. The Russian film's
eoniinuinj; histon is set against me connected round of Russia's social itrtistic promvss of the titty years......

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Concluding with the problems of the present, this first comprehensive history of the lilm in Russia begins with the Lumieres film-ing of the last Tsar's coronation in 1896. For
the first time full attention l given to the large and important RusMan lilm industry before the revolution ol l ( Hl\ and to its many links with tiic emerging Soviet film. The Russian film's
eoniinuinj; histon is set against me connected round of Russia's social itrtistic promvss of the titty years......

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"The Battleship Potemkin," "By the Law," "Mother," "Earth," "Man With a Movie Camera," "Alexander Nevsky": Russia and the Soviet Union produced some of the greatest films the world has ever seen. Leyda has written a riveting history of the pioneers and artists who made these films. His acclaimed book tells the story of the industry that spawned them and the revolution that both inspired and crushed them. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Certainly the most important appraisal of Russian film ever made in book form. -- Theatre Arts

Exceedingly interesting, authoritative and well-documented. -- The Times Literary Supplement

The only work to give such a full and fluent survey of that great area of film production which has been both a stimulus and an enigma to the rest of the world. -- The New York Times Book Review
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Hardcover: 513 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (July 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691040079
ISBN-13: 978-0691040073

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Yesterday evening I received by mail a long and unexpected gift. A golden friend sent me a reproduction of this treasured book. And that 's why I just slept few hours tonight, reading here and there the invaluable and remarkable information around the development of the Russian Cinema.

Jay Leda -his author- worked untiringly during three years around the Schools and Cinematographic Soviet Studies. His tour de force allowed him to explore all the impressive amount of material, never released overseas, and obviously known works in the Western World. He made a vivid and authorized portrait of the artistic trajectory of different filmmakers and their works.

Kino is dedicated to any interested reader about the theme as well the specialist, it has been documented with statements of creators, critics and valuable illustrations, some of them never posted previously. It includes besides, a selected catalogue of premiered films between 1908 and 1958, with interesting details about directors, screenwriters, interpreters
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In May 1896, the most energetic pioneers of the cinema converged on a new market, Russia. Read the first page

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film �migr�s, newsreel studio, jubilee film, newsreel material, raw film stock, ooo roubles, anniversary film, film enterprises, electric theatres, cinema section, film workers, newsreel cameramen

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Red Army, Soviet Union, Cinema Committee, New York, The General Line, Provisional Government, United States, Moscow Art Theatre, Bezhin Meadow, May Day, The End of St Petersburg, Commissariat of Education, Ivan the Terrible, Skobelev Committee, February Revolution, Great Citizen, Lev Nikolayevich, Que Viva Mexico, Abram Room, Yakov Protazanov, Alexander Nevsky, Dziga Vertov, Esther Shub, Ivor Montagu, New Babylon

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