The Cinema Of Yakov Protazanov

Author : F. Booth Wilson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978839168

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The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov by F. Booth Wilson Pdf

Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career spanning three decades. Called "the Russian D.W. Griffith" in the 1910s for his formative role in the first movies in the last years of the Russian Empire, he fled the Civil War and maintained a successful career in Europe before making an unusual decision to return to Russia now under Soviet power. There his films continued their remarkable success with audiences undergoing a bewildering and often brutal revolutionary transformation. Rather than treating him as an indistinct, if capable craftsman, The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov argues that his films are suffused with a unique creative vision that reflects both his mindset as a traditional Russian intellectual and his experience of dislocation and migration after 1917. As he adapted his films to revolutionary culture, they intermingled different voices and reinterpreted his past work from a disavowed era. Offering fresh perspectives of Protazanov’s films, the book will give readers a new appreciation of his career. The book offers a uniquely valuable vantage point from which to explore how cinema reflected a society in transformation and a seminal moment in the development of cinematic art.

Author : Booth Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1139708915

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Revolutionary Norms by Booth Wilson Pdf

This dissertation examines the work of Yakov Aleksandrovich Protazanov, who directed over one hundred films in the silent era. He became a leading director in late tsarist Russia, emigrated to Europe after the Russian Revolution, then repatriated to the Soviet Union and adapted to the new regime. He made consistently popular films in a national cinema tradition dominated by narratives of failure and revolutionary rupture. This study analyzes his surviving film works from 1911 to 1930, using archival sources to situate them within transnational norms of filmmaking practice. Its central question is why Protazanov continued to enjoy a stable career despite the volatile politics of the era. I argue that as Protazanov adapted his practice to the moment, he accumulated filmmaking techniques and employed an increasing range of stylistic devices. He attentively borrowed from other successful filmmakers, both within Russia and beyond, yet never abandoned many features of his style in his earliest films. His expansive, eclectic style and consistent output challenges received wisdom about the evolution of cinema in the Russo-Soviet context, which emphasizes the impact of changing ideology and the role of an artistic avant-garde. Soviet political imperatives did indeed encourage filmmakers to innovate new stylistic techniques, but they also encouraged them to reuse, recycle, and reappropriate those techniques they had already mastered in the pre-revolutionary era. Protazanov's career further suggests that the major changes in cinematic style across the revolutionary divide stemmed less from Bolshevik prerogatives and more from films' shifting patterns of transnational circulation and a dialogue among an international community of filmmakers. Divided into three parts corresponding to Protazanov's migrations, seven chapters chronologically trace the expansion of his style. They include analyses of canonical films such as The Queen of Spades (1916), Father Sergius (1917), and Aelita (1924); lesser-known but successful ones such as His Call (1925) and The Case of Three Million (1926); and several that have only recently been rediscovered, including The Convict's Song (1911), The Broken Vase (1913), Child of Another (1919), Towards the Light (1921), and Pilgrimage of Love (1923).

Author : Ian Christie,Professor Richard Taylor,Richard Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134944330

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Inside the Film Factory by Ian Christie,Professor Richard Taylor,Richard Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Jill Nelmes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415262690

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An Introduction to Film Studies by Jill Nelmes Pdf

An Introduction to Film Studies has established itself as the leading textbook for students of cinema. This revised and updated third edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, and introduces some of the world's key national cinemas including British, Indian, Soviet and French. Written by experienced teachers in the field and lavishly illustrated with over 122 film stills and production shots, it will be essential reading for any student of film.Features of the third edition include:*full coverage of all the key topics at undergraduate level*comprehensive and up-to-date information and new case studies on recent films such as Gladiator , Spiderman , The Blair Witch Project, Fight Club , Shrek and The Matrix*annotated key readings, further viewing, website resources, study questions, a comprehensive bibliography and indexes, and a glossary of key terms will help lecturers prepare tutorials and encourage students to undertake independent study.Individual chapters include:*Film form and narrative*Spectator, audience and response*Critical approaches to Hollywood cinema: authorship, genre and stars*Animation: forms and meaning*Gender and film*Lesbian and gay cinema*British cinema*Soviet montage Cinema*French New Wave*Indian Cinema

Author : Jay Leyda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : MINN:31951002109229D

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Kino, a History of the Russian and Soviet Film by Jay Leyda Pdf

Author : Ian Christie,Professor Richard Taylor,Richard Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135082512

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The Film Factory by Ian Christie,Professor Richard Taylor,Richard Taylor Pdf

The Film Factory provides a comprehensive documentary history of Russian and Soviet cinema. It provokes a major reassessment of conventional Western understanding of Soviet cinema. Based on extensive research and in original translation, the documents selected illustrate both the aesthetic and political development of Russian and Soviet cinema, from its beginnings as a fairground novelty in 1896 to its emergence as a mass medium of entertainment and propaganda on the eve of World War II.

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521088550

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The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917-1929 by Richard Taylor Pdf

The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties.

Author : Denise J. Youngblood
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780700617616

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Russian War Films by Denise J. Youngblood Pdf

War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood, an internationally recognized authority on Russian and Soviet cinema, provides the first comprehensive guide to this long-neglected genre. In this illuminating study, Youngblood explores more than 160 fiction films on Russian conflicts from World War I to Chechnya. These movies represent a wide range of cinematic styles and critical receptions, with particular emphasis on films little known in the West but popular in the USSR. While not ignoring classic war films like Chapaev and The Cranes Are Flying, Youngblood introduces readers to the films that shaped and reflected Soviet views of war, like the rousing World War II favorite Two Warriors, the Thaw classic The Living and the Dead, and the Brezhnevian extravaganza Liberation. This remarkably humanistic body of work was often at odds with official policies and depicted the futility of war. Youngblood is especially insightful regarding the relationship between Stalinism, Socialist Realism, and filmmakers in creating the war film genre during an era marked by increasing militarization, conformism, and state terror and the importance of cinema in the World War II propaganda effort. Stalin's obsession with movies led to the "revisioning" of his role in the Civil War and the "Great Patriotic War." Yet, Youngblood argues, Soviet filmmakers were not mere puppets of repressive regimes. Indeed, some filmmakers subtly subverted official politics and history in the guise of art or Hollywood-style entertainment. She brings the story to the present by showing how post-Soviet Russian filmmakers have not only turned a critical eye on the recent wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya but are also revisiting the complex realities of World War II. Through her accessible narrative, Youngblood tells a fascinating story that will appeal equally to film aficionados and history buffs. By tracing the evolution of cinema through the twists and turns of both Soviet and post-Soviet society, she helps us the role movies played in 20th century Russia, not only in the making and unmaking of political myths but also in the "writing" of history.

Author : Natalija Majsova
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793609328

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Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age by Natalija Majsova Pdf

This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity’s imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.

Author : Derek Spring,Richard Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136128288

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Stalinism and Soviet Cinema by Derek Spring,Richard Taylor Pdf

Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks the first attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development of Soviet cinema. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of the antecedents, role and consequences of Stalinism and Soviet cinema, how Stalinism emerged, what the relationship was between the political leadership, the cinema administrators, the film-makers and their films and audiences, and how Soviet cinema is coming to terms with the disintegration of established structures and mythologies. Contributors from Britain, America and the Soviet Union address themselves to the importance of the Stalinist legacy, not only to the history of Soviet cinema but to Soviet history as a whole.

Author : Jill Nelmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136777158

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Introduction to Film Studies by Jill Nelmes Pdf

Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, traces the historical development of film and introduces some of the worlds key national cinemas. A range of theories and theorists are presented from Formalism to Feminism, from Eisenstein to Deleuze. Each chapter is written by a subject specialist, including two new authors for the fifth edition. A wide range of films are analysed and discussed. It is lavishly illustrated with 150 film stills and production shots, in full colour throughout. Reviewed widely by teachers in the field and with a foreword by Bill Nichols, it will be essential reading for any introductory student of film and media studies or the visual arts worldwide. Key features of the fifth edition are: updated coverage of a wide range of concepts, theories and issues in film studies in-depth discussion of the contemporary film industry and technological changes new chapters on Film and Technology and Latin American Cinema new case studies on films such as District 9, Grizzly Man, Amores Perros, Avatar, Made in Dagenham and many others marginal key terms, notes, cross-referencing suggestions for further reading, further viewing and a comprehensive glossary and bibliography a new, improved companion website including popular case studies and chapters from previous editions (including chapters on German Cinema and The French New Wave), links to supporting sites, clips, questions and useful resources. Individual chapters include: The Industrial Contexts of Film Production · Film and Technology · Getting to the Bigger · Picture Film Form and Narrative · Spectator, Audience and Response · Cinematic authorship and the film auteur · Stardom and Hollywood Cinema · Genre, Theory and Hollywood Cinema The Documentary Form · The Language of Animation · Gender and Film · Lesbian and Gay Cinema · Spectacle, Stereotypes and Films of the African Diaspora · British Cinema · Indian Cinema · Latin American Cinema · Soviet Montage Cinema of the 1920s Contributors: Linda Craig, Lalitha Gopalan, Terri Francis, Chris Jones, Mark Joyce, Searle Kochberg, Lawrence Napper, Jill Nelmes, Patrick Phillips, Suzanne Speidel, Paul Ward, Paul Watson, Paul Wells and William Wittington

Author : Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521897600

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The Red Rockets' Glare by Asif A. Siddiqi Pdf

An academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program, situating the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within Russian and Soviet history.

Author : Olaf Brill
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403269

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Expressionism in the Cinema by Olaf Brill Pdf

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this anthology remedies this by revisiting key German films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), and also provide original critical research into more obscure titles like Nerven (1919) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), films that were produced in the silent and early sound era in countries ranging from France, Sweden and Hungary, to the United States and Mexico. An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in the Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.

Author : Jamie Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857716934

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Soviet Cinema by Jamie Miller Pdf

When the Bolsheviks seized power in the Soviet Union during 1917, they were suffering from a substantial political legitimacy deficit. Uneasy political foundations meant that cinema became a key part of the strategy to protect the existence of the USSR. Based on extensive archival research, this welcome book examines the interaction between politics and the Soviet cinema industry during the period between Stalin's rise to power and the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. It reveals that film had a central function during those years as an important means of convincing the masses that the regime was legitimate and a bearer of historical truth. Miller analyses key films, from the classic musical 'Circus' to the political epic "The Great Citizen", and examines the Bolsheviks', ultimately failed, attempts to develop a 'cinema for the millions'. As Denise Youngblood writes, 'this work is indispensable reading not only for specialists in Soviet film and culture, but also for anyone interested in the dynamics of cultural production in an authoritarian society'.

Author : Peter Rollberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442268425

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Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema by Peter Rollberg Pdf

Russian and Soviet cinema occupies a unique place in the history of world cinema. Legendary filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Sergei Paradjanov have created oeuvres that are being screened and studied all over the world. The Soviet film industry was different from others because its main criterion of success was not profit, but the ideological and aesthetic effect on the viewer. Another important feature is Soviet cinema’s multinational (Eurasian) character: while Russian cinema was the largest, other national cinemas such as Georgian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian played a decisive role for Soviet cinema as a whole. The Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema provides a rich tapestry of factual information, together with detailed critical assessments of individual artistic accomplishments. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, performers, cinematographers, composers, designers, producers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian and Soviet Cinema.