This history of the turbulent destiny of Kino ("film" in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, Jay Leyda links Russia's pre-Revolutionary past with its Communist present through the observation of a major cultural phenomenon: the evolution of the Soviet film as an artistic and political instrument. The book contains 150 drawings and photographs and five appendices, including a list of selected Russian and Soviet films from 1907 to the present.
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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.
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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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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 and scenographers. It is a must buy.
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In May 1896, the most energetic pioneers of the cinema converged on a new market, Russia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film émigrés, newsreel studio, jubilee film, newsreel material, raw film stock, ooo roubles, anniversary film, film enterprises, electric theatres, cinema section, film workers, newsreel cameramen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 New!
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In May 1896, the most energetic pioneers of the cinema converged on a new market, Russia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film émigrés, newsreel studio, jubilee film, newsreel material, raw film stock, ooo roubles, anniversary film, film enterprises, electric theatres, cinema section, film workers, newsreel cameramen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 New!
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- Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein in Table of Contents, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cinema as a Graphic Art by Vladimir Nilsen on page 360, Back Matter, and Index
- The Emperor's New Clothes by H.C. Andersen on page 133, and Back Matter
- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry in Back Matter, and Index
- God of Vengeance: A Play by Donald Margulies on page 66, and Back Matter
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- Cinema and Soviet Society: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (Kino - The Russian Cinema) by Peter Kenez on 5 pages
- Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration by Al LaValley on 4 pages
- RUSSIAN WAR FILMS: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005 by Denise J. Youngblood on 4 pages
- European Film Theory and Cinema: A Critical Introduction by Ian Aitken on page 44, page 66, and Back Matter
- Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema by Lynne Kirby in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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