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Soviet Spectatorship - Observing The Body In Physical And Visual Culture

by Samuel Goff

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 What distinguished the Soviet ''look''? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War. Samuel Goff identifies the three fundamental ''structures of looking'' - surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship - that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject. Close readings of understudied films such as Happy Finish (1934), The Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray (1935) and A Strict Young Man (1936), are contextualised through a theoretical analysis of the relationship between subjectivity and the body. In doing so, Goff traces the evolution of a specific Soviet ''look'', examining perspectives on Soviet aesthetics and theories of body and mind, uncovering continuities within Soviet visual cultures in a period usually understood in terms of discontinuity and rupture.
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Soviet Spectatorship - Observing The Body In Physical And Visual Culture

by Samuel Goff

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 What distinguished the Soviet ''look''? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War. Samuel Goff identifies the three fundamental ''structures of looking'' - surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship - that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject. Close readings of understudied films such as Happy Finish (1934), The Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray (1935) and A Strict Young Man (1936), are contextualised through a theoretical analysis of the relationship between subjectivity and the body. In doing so, Goff traces the evolution of a specific Soviet ''look'', examining perspectives on Soviet aesthetics and theories of body and mind, uncovering continuities within Soviet visual cultures in a period usually understood in terms of discontinuity and rupture.
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Siberian History Of Soviet Film - Manufacturing Visions Of The Indigenous Peoples Of The North

by Caroline Damiens

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 An in-depth exploration of the history of representations of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in the Soviet era, considering both how they were represented and how they represented themselves.
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Siberian History Of Soviet Film - Manufacturing Visions Of The Indigenous Peoples Of The North

by Caroline Damiens

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 An in-depth exploration of the history of representations of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in the Soviet era, considering both how they were represented and how they represented themselves.
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A Siberian History Of Soviet Film - Manufacturing Visions Of The Indigenous Peoples Of The North

by Caroline Damiens

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 An in-depth exploration of the history of representations of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in the Soviet era, considering both how they were represented and how they represented themselves.
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Designing Russian Cinema - The Production Artist And The Material Environment In Silent Era Film

by Eleanor Rees

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 This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema''s connections with other art forms, examining how production artists drew on both aesthetic traditions and modernist experiments in architecture, painting and theatre as they explored the new medium of cinema and its potential to engender new models of perception and forms of audience engagement. Drawing on set design sketches, archival documents and film-makers'' memoirs, Eleanor Rees reveals how less-canonical films such as Behind the Screen (Kulisy ekrana, 1919) and Palace and Fortress (Dvorets i krepost´, 1923), were remarkable from a design perspective, and also provides new readings of well-known films, such as Children of the Age (Deti veka, 1915) and Strike (Stachka, 1925). Rees brings to light information on significant but understudied figures such as Vladimir Egorov and Sergei Kozlovskii, and highlights the involvement of well-known figures such as Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Unlike the majority of late Imperial directors and camera operators, many early-Russian production artists continued to work in cinema in the Soviet era and to draw on practices forged before the 1917 Revolution. In spanning the entire silent era, this book highlights the often overlooked continuities between the late-Imperial and early-Soviet periods of cinema, thus questioning traditional historical periodisations.
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Designing Russian Cinema - The Production Artist And The Material Environment In Silent Era Film

by Eleanor Rees

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema''s connections with other art forms, examining how production artists drew on both aesthetic traditions and modernist experiments in architecture, painting and theatre as they explored the new medium of cinema and its potential to engender new models of perception and forms of audience engagement. Drawing on set design sketches, archival documents and film-makers'' memoirs, Eleanor Rees reveals how less-canonical films such as Behind the Screen (Kulisy ekrana, 1919) and Palace and Fortress (Dvorets i krepost´, 1923), were remarkable from a design perspective, and also provides new readings of well-known films, such as Children of the Age (Deti veka, 1915) and Strike (Stachka, 1925). Rees brings to light information on significant but understudied figures such as Vladimir Egorov and Sergei Kozlovskii, and highlights the involvement of well-known figures such as Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Unlike the majority of late Imperial directors and camera operators, many early-Russian production artists continued to work in cinema in the Soviet era and to draw on practices forged before the 1917 Revolution. In spanning the entire silent era, this book highlights the often overlooked continuities between the late-Imperial and early-Soviet periods of cinema, thus questioning traditional historical periodisations.
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Real Images - Soviet Cinema And The Thaw

by Josephine Woll

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 This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry and film-makers strove to satisfy audiences' hunger for films, whilst accommodating politics.
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Real Images - Soviet Cinema And The Thaw

by Josephine Woll

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 This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry and film-makers strove to satisfy audiences' hunger for films, whilst accommodating politics.
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Russia On Reels - The Russian Idea In Post-Soviet Cinema

by Birgit Beumers

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 Looks at Russian cinema of the 1990s, describing the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema and studying the work of filmmakers such as Sokurov. A review of the industry in times of economic change is included, with an assessment of its function as a definer of Russia's new identity. In the KINO- THE RUSSIAN CINEMA series.
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Russia On Reels - The Russian Idea In Post-Soviet Cinema

by Birgit Beumers

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 Looks at Russian cinema of the 1990s, describing the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema and studying the work of filmmakers such as Sokurov. A review of the industry in times of economic change is included, with an assessment of its function as a definer of Russia's new identity. In the KINO- THE RUSSIAN CINEMA series.
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Russian Americans' In Soviet Film - Cinematic Dialogues Between The Us And The Ussr

by Marina L. Levitina

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 Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are regarded as polar opposites on nearly every front. Yet American films and translated adventure fiction were warmly received in 1920s Russia and partly shaped ideals of the New Soviet Person into the 1940s. Cinema was crucial in propagating this new social hero. While open admiration of American film stars and heroes of literary fiction in the Soviet press was restricted from the late 1920s onwards, many positive heroes of Soviet Socialist Realist films in the 1930s and 1940s were partially a product of Soviet Americanism of the previous decade. Some of the new Soviet heroes in films of the 1930s and 1940s possessed traits noticeably evocative of the previously popular American film stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Pearl White and Mary Pickford. Others cinematically represented the contemporary trope of the ''Russian American,'' an ideal worker exemplifying the Stalinist marriage of ''Russian revolutionary sweep'' with ''American efficiency. ''Russian Americans'' in Soviet Film analyses the content, reception and underlying influences of over 60 Soviet and American films, the book explores new territory in Soviet cinema and Soviet-American cultural relations. It presents groundbreaking archival research encompassing Soviet audience surveys, Soviet film journals and reviews, memoirs and articles by Soviet filmmakers, and scripts, among other sources. The book reveals that values of optimism, technological skill, efficiency and self-reliance - perceived as quintessentially American - were incorporated into new Soviet ideals through channels of cross-cultural dissemination, resulting in cultural synthesis.
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Eisenstein On The Audiovisual - The Montage Of Music, Image And Sound In Cinema

by Robert Robertson

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 Presents an introduction to a key area of Eisenstein's thought: his ideas about the audiovisual in cinema, which are more pertinent today than ever before. With the advent of digital technology, music and sound now act as independent variables combined with the visual medium to produce a truly audiovisual result.
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Screening Soviet Nationalities - Kulturfilms From The Far North To Central Asia

by Oksana Sarkisova

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 Soviet expedition films from between 1925-1940 are examined as early forms of documentaries with both ideological and educational agendas
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Performing Femininity - Woman As Performer In Early Russian Cinema

by Rachel Morley

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 Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film, Romashkov''s Stenka Razin (1908), through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky''s The Last Tango (1918), made shortly before the pre-Revolutionary film industry was dismantled by the new Soviet government, the female performer remains central. In this groundbreaking new study, Rachel Morley argues that early Russian film-makers used the character of the female performer to explore key contemporary concerns from changing conceptions of femininity and the emergence of the so-called New Woman, to broader questions concerning gender identity. Morley also reveals that the film-makers repeatedly used this archetype of femininity to experiment with cinematic technology and develop a specific cinematic language."
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Ukrainian Cinema - Belonging And Identity During The Soviet Thaw

by Joshua First

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 Historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s.
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Cinema In Central Asia - Rewriting Cultural Histories

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 Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of film in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day.
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Dziga Vertov - Defining Documentary Film

by Jeremy Hicks

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 Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. This book covers the whole of Vertov's career, reveals him to be an auteur, allowing readers to combine the familiar and less familiar aspects of his filmmaking and thinking in a cohesive narrative.
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Cinema Of Tarkovsky - Labyrinths Of Space And Time

by Nariman Skakov

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 Explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema - from Ivan's Childhood (1962) to Sacrifice (1986). Dreams, visions, mirages, memories, revelations, reveries and delusions are phenomena which present alternative spatio-temporal patterns; they disrupt the linear progression of events and create narrative discontinuity.
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Cinema In Central Asia - Rewriting Cultural Histories

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 Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of film in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day.
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Ukrainian Cinema - Belonging And Identity During The Soviet Thaw

by Joshua (University Of Mississippi, Usa.) First

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 Historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s.
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Savage Junctures - Sergei Eisenstein And The Shape Of Thinking

by Anne Nesbet

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 Provides fresh insights into Eisenstein's films and writings. Including chapters which offer a fresh interpretation of the films and writings that make up his oeuvre, this book also examines the multiple contexts within which his films evolved and Eisenstein's appropriation of all of world culture as his source.
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The Cinema Of Alexander Sokurov

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 In this, the first English-language book to cover Sokurov's full oeuvre, leading scholars on Sokurov unravel his work on documentaries; his early films and literary adaptations; his trilogy on leaders focussing on the decaying body; his films on passing youth and approaching age; and, of course, 'Russian Ark'.
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Eisenstein On The Audiovisual - The Montage Of Music, Image And Sound In Cinema

by Robert Robertson

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 The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his writings, which present a continent of ideas about film. This book presents an introduction to a key area of Eisenstein's thought: his ideas about the audiovisual in cinema.
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