The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939

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Contents
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General Editor's Preface
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
Translator's Note
1896-1921: Introduction
	1896
		1 Maxim Gorky: The Lumière Cinematograph (Extracts)
	1911
		2 Leonid Andreyev: First Letter on Theatre (Extracts)
	1913
		3 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Theatre, Cinema, Futurism
		4 Vladimir Mayakovsky: The Destruction of 'Theatre' by Cinema as a Sign of the Resurrection of Theatrical Art
		5 Vladimir Mayakovsky: The Relationship Between Contemporary Theatre and Cinema and Art
		6 Leonid Andreyev: Second Letter on Theatre (Extract)
	1915
		7 Vsevolod Meyerhold: On Cinema
	1917
		8 Lev Kuleshov: The Tasks of the Artist in Cinema
	1918
		9 Lev Kuleshov: The Art of Cinema
	1919
		10 Anatoli Lunacharsky: The Tasks of the State Cinema in the RSFSR
	1920
		11 Vladimir Lenin: Art Belongs to the People. Conversation with Clara Zetkin
1922: Introduction
	12 Vladimir Lenin: Directive on Cinema Affairs
	13 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Conversation with Lenin. I. Of all the Arts . . .
	14 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Conversation with Lenin. II. Newsreel and Fiction Film
	15 Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Sergei Yutkevich and Georgi Kryzhitsky: Eccentrism
	16 Alexei Voznesensky: Open Letter to Nemirovich-Danchenko and Stanislavsky
	17 Lev Kuleshov: 'Art' Cinema
	18 Lev Kuleshov: Cinema as the Fixing of Theatrical Action
	19 Alexei Gan: The Cinematograph and Cinema
	20 Lev Kuleshov: Art, Contemporary Life and Cinema
	21 Dziga Vertov: We. A Version of a Manifesto
	22 Lev Kuleshov: Americanism
	23 Lev Kuleshov: Chamber Cinema
	24 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Cinema and Cinema
	25 Alexei Gan: The 'Left Front' and Cinema
	26 Alexei Gan: The Thirteenth Experiment
1923: Introduction
	27 Alexei Gan: Two Paths
	28 Dziga Vertov: The Cine-Pravda
	29 Proletkino: Quasi-Theses
	30 Sergei Eisenstein: The Montage of Attractions
	31 Dziga Vertov: The Cine-Eyes. A Revolution
	32 Lev Trotsky: Vodka, the Church and the Cinema
	33 Russfilm Script Competition
	34 Viktor Shklovsky: Literature and Cinema (Extracts)
1924: Introduction
	35 Declaration of the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography
	36 Leonid Trauberg: The Red Clown to the Rescue!
	37 Alexei Gan: Recognition for the Cine-Eyes
	38 Lev Kuleshov: Mr West
	39 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Revolutionary Ideology and Cinema -Theses
	40 Resolution of Thirteenth Party Congress on Cinema
	41 Dziga Vertov: The Cine-Pravda: A Report to the Cine-Eyes
	42 Sovnarkom of the RSFSR: Decree on the Establishment of Sovkino
	43 Dziga Vertov: Fiction Film Drama and the Cine-Eye
	44 Vladimir Blyum: Against the 'Theatre of Fools' - For Cinema
1925: Introduction
	45 Anatoli Goldobin: Our Cinema and Its Audience
	46 Zhizn iskusstva Editorial: Theatre or Cinema?
	47 Abram Room: Cinema and Theatre
	48 Dziga Vertov: Cine-Pravda and Radio-Pravda
	49 Viktor Shklovsky: The Semantics of Cinema
	50 Grigori Boltyansky: Cinema and the Soviet Public
1926: Introduction
	51 Adrian Piotrovsky: The Battleship Potemkin
	52 Alexei Gvozdev: A New Triumph for Soviet Cinema (The Battleship Potemkin and the 'Theatrical October')
	53 Vladimir Kirshon: Literature, Theatre and Cinema (Extract)
	54 Bela Balazs: The Future of Film
	55 Sergei Eisenstein: Bela Forgets the Scissors
	56 Alexander Dubrovsky: The Soviet Cinema in Danger
	57 Dziga Vertov: The Factory of Facts
	58 Viktor Shklovsky: Where is Dziga Vertov Striding?
	59 Esfir Shub: The Manufacture of Facts
	60 Viktor Shklovsky: The Cine-Eyes and Intertitles
	61 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Cinema - the Greatest of the Arts
1927: Introduction
	62 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Help!
	63 Viktor Shklovsky: Sergei Eisenstein and 'Non-Played' Film
	64 Viktor Shklovsky: The Temperature of Cinema
	65 Viktor Pertsov: Literature and Cinema
	66 Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (Extracts)
	67 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Speech in Debate on 'The Paths and Policy of Sovkino'
	68 Vladimir Mayakovsky: On Cinema
	69 Kirill Shutko: Preface to Poetics of Cinema
	70 Viktor Shklovsky: Poetry and Prose in Cinema
	71 Adrian Piotrovsky: The Cinefication of Theatre - Some GeneralPoints
	72 Viktor Shklovsky: Mistakes and Inventions
	73 Osip Brik: The Fixation of Fact (Extract)
	74 Esfir Shub: We Do Not Deny the Element of Mastery
	75 Adrian Piotrovsky: Let Us Be Maximalists!
	76 Adrian Piotrovsky: 'Ideology' and 'Commerce'
1928: Introduction
	77 Nikolai Yakovlev: The Nihilists from ARK
	78 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Speech to Film Workers
	79 Vsevolod Pudovkin: S. M. Eisenstein (From Potemkin to October)
	80 Dziga Vertov: The Eleventh Year
	81 Alexei Popov: The Relationships Between Cinema and Theatre
	82 To the Party Conference on Cinema From a Group of Film Directors
	83 Party Cinema Conference Resolution: The Results of Cinema Construction in the USSR and the Tasks of Soviet Cinema
	84 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Review of October
	85 Adrian Piotrovsky: October Must Be Re-Edited!
	86 Esfir Shub: This Work Cries Out
	87 Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov: We Are Waiting!
	88 T. Rokotov: Why Is October Difficult?
	89 Sergei Eisenstein: For Soviet Cinema
	90 The Lef Ring: Comrades! A Clash of Views!
	91 Zhizn iskusstva Editorial: October - The Results of the Discussion
	92 Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Grigori Alexandrov: Statement on Sound
	93 Vladimir Messman: Sound Film
	94 Viktor Shklovsky: The Soviet School of Acting
	95 Adrian Piotrovsky: Is There a Crisis in Soviet Cinema?
	96 Sovkino Workers' Conference Resolution: Sovkino's New Course (Extract)
	97 Sovetskii ekran Editorial: The Rightist Danger in Cinema
1929: Introduction
	98 Leonid Trauberg: An Experiment Intelligible to the Millions
	99 Viktor Shklovsky: Beware of Music
	100 Party Central Committee Decree: On the Strengthening of Cinema Cadres
	101 Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov: An Experiment Intelligible to the Millions
	102 Yuri Tynyanov: On FEKS
	103 Pavel Petrov-Bytov: We Have No Soviet Cinema
	104 Adrian Piotrovsky: Petrov-Bytov's Platform and Soviet Cinema
	105 Vsevolod Pudovkin: On the Principle of Sound in Film
	106 Adrian Piotrovsky: Westernism in Our Cinema
	107 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Leonid Obolensky, Sergei Komarov and Vladimir Fogel: Preface to Kuleshov's Book The Art of Cinema
	108 Esfir Shub: The Advent of Sound in Cinema
	109 Vsevolod Meyerhold: The Cinefication of Theatre
	110 RAPP Resolution on Cinema
	111 Vsevolod Pudovkin: Conversation on Sound Film
1930: Introduction
	112 'An ARK Member': ARRK Must Be Reorganised
	113 Ippolit Sokolov: The Legend of 'Left' Cinema
	114 Na literaturnom postu Editorial: For the Reconstruction of Soviet Cinema
	115 Nikolai Anoshchenko: Sound Cinema in the Service of the Cultural Revolution
	116 Viktor Shklovsky: The Script Laboratory
	117 Kino i zhizn Editorial: Film Work and the Mass Audience
	118 Dziga Vertov: The Radio-Eye's March
	119 Dziga Vertov: Speech to the First All-Union Conference on Sound Cinema
	120 Viktor Shklovsky: Sound as a Semantic Sign
	121 Ippolit Sokolov: The Second Sound Film Programme
	122 Kino i zhizn Editorial: Is There a Soviet Sound Cinema?
	123 Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Language of New Babylon
1931-4: Introduction
	1931
		124 Proletarskoe kino Editorial: What Does 'Proletarian Cinema' Mean?
	1932
		125 Proletarskoe kino Editorial: We Are Continuing the Struggle
		126 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Esfir Shub et al.: To All Creative Workers in Soviet Cinema
		127 Party Central Committee Decree: The Reorganisation of Literary and Artistic Organisations
	1933
		128 Anatoli Lunacharsky: Synopsis of a Report on the Tasks of Dramaturgy (Extract)
		129 Vsevolod Pudovkin: The Role of Sound Cinema
		130 Sergei Eisenstein: Cinema and the Classics
	1934
		131 First Congress of Soviet Writers (Extracts)
		132 Pravda Editorial: The Whole Country is Watching Chapayev
		133 Film-Makers' Letter to Stalin
		134 Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg: The Youth of Maxim(Extracts)
		135 Vsevolod Pudovkin: The Youth of Maxim
		136 Dziga Vertov: More on Mayakovsky (Extract)
1935: Introduction
	137 Joseph Stalin: Congratulations to Soviet Cinema on Its Fifteenth Anniversary
	138 For a Great Cinema Art: Speeches to the All-Union Creative Conference of Workers in Soviet Cinema (Extracts)
	139 Dziga Vertov: My Illness
	140 Boris Shumyatsky: A Cinema for the Millions (Extracts)
	141 Boris Shumyatsky: The Role of the Producer
Postscript: 1936-41
	1936
		142 Boris Shumyatsky: Perfecting Our Mastery
		143 Dziga Vertov: Diary Entry
	1937
		144 Boris Shumyatsky: The Film Bezhin Meadow
		145 Yuli Raizman: Seminar at VGIK (Extracts)
		146 Vsevolod Pudovkin: The Director and the Scriptwriter (Extracts)
		147 Vsevolod Pudovkin: Dialogue in Film (Extract)
		148 Alexander Dovzhenko: The Artist's Teacher and Friend
	1938
		149 G. Ermolayev: What Is Holding Up the Development of Soviet Cinema?
		150 Iskusstvo kino Editorial: The Fascist Cur Eradicated
		151 Alexei Stakhanov: My Suggestion to Soviet Cinema
		152 Reactions to Stakhanov's Article (Extracts)
		153 Vsevolod Pudovkin: The Internal and the External in an Actor's Training
	1939
		154 Sergei Eisenstein: My Subject Is Patriotism
Abbreviations
Notes to Introduction
Notes to Documents
Table 1: Cinema Installations and Their Distribution in the Russian Empire and USSR, 1914--41
Table 2: Film Production, 1918-41
Appendice
	Appendix 1 Films: Russian and Soviet
	Appendix 2 Films: Foreign
	Appendix 3 People: Russian and Soviet
	Appendix 4 People: Foreign
Index