Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema (Soviet Cinema Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Notes on contributions......Page 13
General editors’ preface......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Note on transliteration and translation......Page 19
Introduction Entering the film factory......Page 20
RUSSIAN ENDINGS......Page 26
THE FIRST RUSSIAN FILM......Page 28
THE SPEED OF THE ACTION......Page 32
THE INTERTITLE......Page 37
FILM RECITATION......Page 38
STAGE-SCREEN HYBRIDS......Page 43
I......Page 50
II......Page 54
III......Page 61
I......Page 70
II......Page 72
PROLOGUE TO INTOLERANCE32......Page 77
4 The origins of Soviet cinema: a study in industry development......Page 80
WAR COMMUNISM AND THE PERIOD OF NET CAPITAL CONSUMPTION......Page 82
NEP AND CAPITAL ACCUMULATION......Page 87
1 HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY SEEN AELITA?......Page 100
2 ‘ANTA…ODELI…UTA…’......Page 101
3 THE MEZHRABPOM-RUS INITIATIVE......Page 104
4 TOLSTOI—‘UNLUCKY IN CINEMA’......Page 107
5 PROTAZANOV—ON THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM......Page 110
6 PARIS—MOSCOW—MARS......Page 112
7 DREAMERS AND DETECTIVES......Page 116
8 CREATING THE NEW MAN......Page 118
9 BACK THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS......Page 119
6 The return of the native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet cinema......Page 122
7 A face to the shtetl: Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924–36......Page 142
8 A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet director......Page 168
9 Interview with Alexander Medvedkin......Page 182
10 Making sense of early Soviet sound......Page 194
THE THREAT OF THE TALKIES......Page 195
CRISIS AND COUNTERPOINT: ANTICIPATING SOUND......Page 198
VERTOV: ENTHUSIASM FOR SOUND......Page 201
INDUSTRIAL AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION......Page 202
FIRST STEPS IN SOUND......Page 205
2......Page 206
3......Page 207
4......Page 208
FROM ‘INNER SPEECH’ TO ‘OUTER SPEECH’......Page 209
11 Ideology as mass entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet cinema in the 1930s......Page 212
Notes......Page 236
Index......Page 272