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Notes on contributions

Ian Christie’s ‘Down to earth: Aelita relocated’, Denise Youngblood’s ‘The return
of the native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet cinema’, and J.Hoberman’s ‘A face
to the shtetl: Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924—36’ were written specially for this
volume.
Yuri Tsivian’s piece on ‘Early Russian cinema: some observations’ was written
specially for this collection and is a considerably expanded version of ‘Some
Preparatory Remarks on Russian Cinema’, in Yuri Tsivian et al. (eds), Silent
Witnesses. Russian Films, 1908—1919 (London and Pordenone: 1989), pp. 24—
43. It was translated from the Russian by Richard Taylor.
Mikhail Yampolsky’s ‘Kuleshov’s experiments and the new anthropology of the
actor’ has been slightly expanded from ‘Les expériences de Kuleshov et la
nouvelle anthropologie de l’acteur’, which first appeared in Iris, vol. 4, no. 1
(1986), pp. 25—47. It was translated from the Russian by Richard Taylor.
Vance Kepley’s ‘Intolerance and the Soviets: a historical investigation’ is a
slightly revised version of the article that appeared in Wide Angle, vol. 3, no. 1
(1979), pp. 22—7. The Russian prologue to Intolerance was first published by
Viktor Listov in Iz istorii kino, no. 9 (Moscow: 1974), pp. 188—91, and is here
translated from the Russian by Richard Taylor from a draft by Betty and Vance
Kepley. ‘The origins of Soviet cinema: a study in industry development’ first
appeared in Quarterly Review of Film Studies, vol. 10, no. 1 (Winter 1985), pp.
22—38, and is published here with minor revisions.
Bernard Eisenschitz’s ‘A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet
director’ is a revised version of ‘Un homme léger, ou Boris Barnet en metteur-en-
scène soviétique’, which appeared in: F.Albera and R. Cosandey (eds), Boris
Barnet. Ecrits. Documents. Etudes. Filmographie (Locarno: 1985), pp. 174—93,
and is here translated from the French by Ian Christie.
Alexander Medvedkin was interviewed by the late Martin Walsh and the
Swedish researcher Kate Betz at the FIAF Congress in Varna, Bulgaria, in June
1977 and again by Richard Taylor at Dom kino, Moscow, in March 1985.
Richard Taylor has translated, condensed and annotated both interviews from
the Russian.