Page 8 - Inside the Film Factory New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema

Contents

Illustrations ix
Notes on contributors x

Notes on contributions xii
General editors’ preface xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Note on transliteration and translation xviii

Introduction: Entering the film factory 1
Richard Taylor and Ian Christie
1 Early Russian cinema: some observations 7
Yuri Tsivian

2 Kuleshov’s experiments and the new anthropology of the 31
actor
Mikhail Yampolsky
3 Intolerance and the Soviets: a historical investigation 51
Vance Kepley, Jr
4 The origins of Soviet cinema: a study in industry 61
development
Vance Kepley, Jr
5 Down to earth: Aelita relocated 81
Ian Christie

6 The return of the native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet 103
cinema
Denise J.Youngblood
7 A face to the shtetl: Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924—36 123
J.Hoberman
8 A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet 149
director
Bernard Eisenschitz