Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to

This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material thatglasnostandperestroikahave revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. The collection brings together cinema historians and film critics from Britain, France, the USA and Russia to re-examine Soviet film and reassess Cold War historiographic assumptions. As well as providing new perspectives and source material on the much mythologised figures of Kuleshov and Medvekin, the book also provides the first extended accounts in English of the careers of directors Yakov Protazanov and Boris Barnett. Inside the Film Factoryreveals the subtle interplay between cinema as an industry and as an arm of the state, as mass entertainment and as propaganda. It is essential reading for both historians of Soviet culture and film scholars.

General Editors' Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Note on Transliteration and Translation	p. xix
Introduction Entering the Film Factory	p. 1
Early Russian Cinema: Some Observations	p. 7
Kuleshov's Experiments and the New Anthropology of the Actor	p. 31
Intolerance and the Soviets: a Historical Investigation	p. 51
The Origins of Soviet Cinema: a Study in Industry Development	p. 60
Down to Earth: Aelita Relocated	p. 80
The Return of the Native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet Cinema	p. 103
A Face to the Shtetl: Soviet Yiddish Cinema, 1924-36	p. 124
A Fickle Man, or Portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet Director	p. 151
Interview with Alexander Medvedkin	p. 165
Making Sense of Early Soviet Sound	p. 176
Ideology as Mass Entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet Cinema in the 1930s	p. 193
Notes	p. 217
Index	p. 248
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