Inside the Film Factory by Ian Christie

Inside the Film Factory by Ian Christie

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Summary

A collection of essays that use new methodological approaches and original archival material to study Soviet film. The book includes the first account in English of the careers of Protazanov and Barnet.

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Inside the Film Factory by Ian Christie

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 historiography. Whereas most books on Soviet giants have glorified the directorial giants of the `golden age' of the 1920s, Inside the Film Factory also recognises the achievements of popular cinema from the pre-Revolutionary period through to the 1930s and beyond. It also evaluates the impact of Western cinema on the early experimenters of montage, Russian science fiction's influence on film-making, and the long-suppressed history of Soviet Yiddish productions. Alongside the new perspectives and source material on the much-mythologised figures of Kuleshov and Medvedkin, the book provides the first extended accounts in English of the important but neglected careers of directors Yakov Protazanov and Boris Barnet.

`It is a valiant and long-overdue project'

Richard Taylor, Ian Christie, Professor Richard Taylor
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ISBN 13 9780415115957
ISBN 10 0415115957
Title Inside the Film Factory
Author Ian Christie
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1994-11-03
Number of pages 276
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