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  • Ukrainian Cinema

    Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw

    by Joshua First ...
    Series series KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
    Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Sergei Paradjanov

    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    by Joshua First, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema – yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release.This book is the first full-length companion to the film. In addition to a synopsis of the plot and a close ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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  • Directory of World Cinema: East Europe

    Edited by Adam Bingham ...
    Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave cinemas across Eastern Central Europe in the post ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Visions of Avant-Garde Film

    Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism

    by Kamila Kuc ...
    Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sergei Eisenstein

    by Mike O'Mahony ...
    Series Book 19 - Critical Lives
    Few individuals have made as much of an impact upon a single medium as has Sergei Eisenstein upon cinema. His ground-breaking movies, such as Battleship Potemkin, October and Aleksandr Nevskii make regular appearances upon ‘all-time best movie’ lists, whilst classic sequences from these movies, such as the baby in the pram on the Odessa steps (Battleship Potemkin), and the battle on the ice ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

    by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova ...
    Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas

    Edited by Anikó Imre ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film culturesFeatures consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Inside the Film Factory

    New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Ian Christie, Professor Richard Taylor, Richard Taylor ...
    This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital task of scrutinising Soviet film, and re-examining the Cold War assumptions of traditional ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Police Aesthetics

    Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times

    by Cristina Vatulescu ...
    The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Red Screen

    Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Anna Lawton ...
    This original collection of essays encompasses seventy years of Soviet cinema from the perspective of twenty academics of different backgrounds and nationalities. The book highlights significant moments in the history of Soviet cinema, providing a challenging montage of detailed `close-ups'. This gives the reader a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Voice of Technology

    Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928–1935

    by Lilya Kaganovsky ...
    As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, politically, and ideologically from the heterogeneous film industry of the 1920s to the centralized industry of the 1930s, and from the avant-garde to Socialist Realism. In The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928–1935, Lilya ... Read more

    $9.99 USD