This collection brings together twenty-three essays by some of Russia's most astute commentators on film and culture, written during the 1980s and published here in English for the first time. Included are reviews of films such as Little Vera and Taxi Blues, which were critically hailed in the West. Their comments illuminate important aspects of Russian filmmaking during this decade and capture a sense of a society in flux during the waning years of communism, as well as conveying the larger context within which Glasnost cinema and culture developed.
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"Brashinsky and Horton have done it again...the work consists of 23 essays, which are sometimes witty, sometimes trenchant, and always replete with the requisite amount of Eastern European irony...teachers, students, and film buffs will find much of interest here." J. M. Curtis, Choice
"...not only presents the views of Soviet critics on the glasnost movies, it also casts light on film criticism as a type of active and assertive social behavior....a useful tool." Dina Iordanova, Slavic and East European Journal
"...not only presents the views of Soviet critics on the glasnost movies, it also casts light on film criticism as a type of active and assertive social behavior....a useful tool." Dina Iordanova, Slavic and East European Journal
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
Original Language: Russian
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As I reread these notes, I fully recognize that not only a typical Soviet film but also Soviet film overall are categories far from a scientific definition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film auteur, collective subconscious, new cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Taxi Blues, Soviet Union, Alexander Sokurov, Eldar Ryazanov, Juris Podnieks, Sergei Solovyev, Victor Tsoi, Pavel Loungin, Alexander Timofeevsky, Marina Drozdova, Moscow Does Not Believe, Pyotr Mamonov, Rashid Nugmanov, Tatyana Moskvina, Tengiz Abuladze, Yevgeny Yufit, Alexander Proshkin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Leonid Filatov, Mosfilm Studios, Rolan Bykov, Vasily Pichul, Vasily Shukshin, Alexander Askoldov, Alexander Kiselev New!
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As I reread these notes, I fully recognize that not only a typical Soviet film but also Soviet film overall are categories far from a scientific definition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film auteur, collective subconscious, new cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Taxi Blues, Soviet Union, Alexander Sokurov, Eldar Ryazanov, Juris Podnieks, Sergei Solovyev, Victor Tsoi, Pavel Loungin, Alexander Timofeevsky, Marina Drozdova, Moscow Does Not Believe, Pyotr Mamonov, Rashid Nugmanov, Tatyana Moskvina, Tengiz Abuladze, Yevgeny Yufit, Alexander Proshkin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Leonid Filatov, Mosfilm Studios, Rolan Bykov, Vasily Pichul, Vasily Shukshin, Alexander Askoldov, Alexander Kiselev New!
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- The Irony of Fate by Angela Alexander in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Little Vera by Maria Khmelik on page 103, and page 107
- Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein on page 14, and Back Matter
- Heartbreak House (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw on page 114, and Back Matter
- An Inspector Calls. by J.B. Priestley in Back Matter
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- Repentance: The Film Companion (Kinofiles Film Companions, 4) by Josephine Woll in Front Matter, page 86, and Back Matter
- RUSSIAN WAR FILMS: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005 by Denise J. Youngblood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Real Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw (Kino--the Russian Cinema) by Josephine Woll in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Little Vera: The Film Companion (Kinofiles Film Companions, 8.) by Frank Beardow on page 107, and Back Matter
- Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge Studies in Film) by Carl R. Plantinga in Front Matter
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