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Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

4. Russo-Soviet Cinema

4.8. Russo-Soviet Cinema: Issues in 20th Century Russian and Soviet Cinema

• Aleinikov, Gleb. "Mannerism and Claustrophobia, or Postmodernism: Life After Death." Re-Entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture. Ed. Ellen E. Berry and Aness Miller-Pogacar. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• Aronson, Oleg. Metakino. Moskva: Ad Marginem, 2003.
• Attwood, Lynne, ed. Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era. London: Pandora Press, 1993.
• Beumers, Birgit. "Cinemarket, or the Russian Film Industry in 'Mission Possible'." Europe--Asia Studies 51.5 (1999): 871-896.
• --. "Father Frost on 31 December: Christmas and New Year in Soviet and Russian Cinema." In Christmas in the Movies. Ed. Mark Connelly. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. 185-209.
• --. "Soviet and Russian Blockbusters: A Question of Genre?" Slavic Review 62.3 (Fall 2003): 441-454.
• --. "To Moscow! To Moscow? The Russian Hero and the Loss of the Center." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 76-87.
• Beumers, Birgit, ed. Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999
• Budiak, L., ed. Kino v mire i mir v kino: Po materialam konferentsii. Moskva: Materik, 2003.
• Bulgakowa, Oksana. "The Hydra of the Soviet Cinema: The Metamorphoses of the Soviet Film Heroine." Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era. Ed Lynne Attwood. London: Pandora, 1993.
• Christensen, Julie. "Fathers and Sons at the Georgian Film Studios." ." Contemporary Soviet Cinema. Ed. Vance Kepley, Jr. WideAngle 12.4 (October 1990): 48-61.
• Condee, Nancy. "Imperial Ectoplasm." Pittsburgh Film Colloquium Roundtable: "National Cinema." KinoKultura 6 (October 2004).
• ---. "No Glory, No Majesty, or Honour: The Russian Idea and Inverse Value." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 25-33.
• Dallet, Sylvie. "Historical Time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian, and Kirghiz Cinema." The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Ed. Anna Lawton. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Dashkevich, Vladimir. "Muzyka i kino." Iz lektsii, prochitannykh na fakul'tete dopolnitel'nogo professional'nogo obrazovaniia. Moskva: VGIK, 2001.
• Demin, Viktor. O Demine vspominaiut... Demin pisal... Comp. N.I. Pavlenko. Moskva: Leksika, 1996.
• Dewey, Donald. "East Meets West on the Silver Screen." Russian Life. Dec/Jan 99: 42-49.
• Dobrenko, Evgeny. "Soviet Comedy Film: or, the Carnival of Authority." Trans. Jesse M. Savage. Discourse 17.3 (Spring 1995): 49-57.
• Dobrotvorskii, Sergei. Kino na oshchup. Sankt Peterburg: Seans, 2001.
• Dobrotvorsky, Sergei. "Cinema Myths and the Future of Culture." Re-Entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture. Ed. Ellen E. Berry and Aness Miller-Pogacar. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• --. "The Most Avant-Garde of All Parallel Ones." Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost. Ed. Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton. NY: Cambridge UP, 1994.
• Documentary Films of the Baltic Soviet Republics: A Retrospective. 19th Nyon [Switzerland] International Documentary Film Festival. Berlin, 1988.
• Dolmatovskaia, Galina and G. Kopalina, eds. Posle vzryva: Dokumental'noe kino 90-kh. Moskva: Andreevskii flag, 1995.
• Dondurei, Daniil. "Russian Cinema--National Cinema? Three Views: 'Cinema and Life' October 1997)." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 43-46.
• Dubrovin, Artem. Interesy i interesnoe: estetika ekrana. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 1994.
• Dymshits, K. and Aleksandr Troshin. Iz proshlogo v budushchee: ob istorizme kino. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 1990.
• Dymshits, N. et al., eds. Besedy na vtorom etazhe. Teoriia kino i khudozhestvennyi opyt. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 1989.
• Dzhulai, Liudmila. Dokumental'nyi iliuzion: otechestvennyi kinodokumentalizm--opyty sotsial'nogo tvorchestva. Moskva: Materik, 2001.
• Ferro, Marc. "Does a Film Writing of History Exist? The Case of the Soviet Union." The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Ed. Anna Lawton. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Fomin, Valerii. Pravda skazki: kino i traditsii fol'klora. Moskva: Materik, 2001.
• Freilikh, Semen. Teoriia kino: ot Eizenshteina do Tarkovskogo. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1992.
• --. Teoriia kino: Ot Eizenshteina do Tarkovskogo 2-oe izd. Moskva: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002.
• Gabrilovich, Evgenii and Sergei Iutkevich. Kinotrilogiia o Lenine. Moskva: Progress, 1985.
• Gillespie, David C. "New Versions of Old Classics: Recent Cinematic Interpretations of Russian Literature." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 114-124.
• --. "Of human bondage and male bonding: male relationships in recent Russian cinema." 100 Years of European cinema: Entertainment or ideology? Ed. Diana Holmes and Alison Smith. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. 133-143.
• ---. "The Sounds of Music: Soundtrack and Song in Soviet Film." Slavic Review 62.3 (Fall 2003): 473-490.
• Goder, Dina. "Moving Pictures: The Little-Known History of Russian Animation." Russian Life 46.6 (Nov-Dec 2003): 24-31.
• Golovnya, Anatolii. "Broken Cudgels." Trans. David Robinson. Ed. Luda & Jean Schitzer and Marcel Martin. Cinema in Revolution. NY: Hill & Wang, 1973.
• --. Masterstvo kinooperatora. Moskva: Iskusstvo/VGIK, 1995.
• Goscilo, Helena. "Moving Images, Imagination, and Eye-deologies." Russian Literature on the Silver Screen. Russian Studies in Literature 40.2 (Spring 2004): 7-19.
• Hill, Steven P. "A Quantitative View of Soviet Cinema." Cinema Journal 11.2 (Spring 1992): 19-25.
• Horton, Andrew, ed. Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter With a Lash. NY: Cambridge UP, 1993.
• Hoberman, J. The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998.
• Hutchings, Stephen and Anat Vernitski. "Introduction: the ekranizatsiia in Russian culture." Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the word. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 1-24.
• Ioskevich, Iakov. "The Sociocultural Potential of Two Forms of Film Consumption." Re-Entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture. Ed. Ellen E. Berry and Aness Miller-Pogacar. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• Iurenev, Rastislav. Kratkaia istoriia sovetskogo kino. Moscow: SK SSSR BPSK, 1979.
• --. Moi milyi VGIK. Moskva: VGIK, 1994.
• --. Novatorstvo sovetskogo iskusstva. Moskva: Prosveshchenie, 1986.
• Ivanov, Vyacheslav. "Functions and Categories of Film Language." Trans. Stephen Rudy. Film Theory and General Semiotics. Ed. Ann Shukman. Oxford: Russian Poetics in Translation, 1981.
• Ivanova, Valentina. Zapiski literaturnogo raba. Moskva: Sovetskii pisatel', 2003.
• Karaganov, A. Sovetskoe kino. Moskva: Politizdat, 1977.
• Khramtsov, Sergei, ed. "Puti k ekranu": Al'ternativnyi sbornik stsenariev. Moskva: Infokor, 1999.
• Kleiman, Naum. Formula finala: Stat'i, vystupleniia, besedy. Moskva: Eizenshtein-tsent, 2004.
• Kokarev, Igor'. Kino kak biznes. Minsk: Vademekun, 1991.
• --. Rossiiskii kinematograf: mezhdu proshlym i budushchim. Moskva: Rossiiskii fond kul'tury i Russkaia Panorama, 2001.
• Kovalov, Oleg. "The Russian Idea: Synopsis for a Screenplay." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 12-21.
• Kozlova, Natal'ia and Irina Sandomirskaia. "Ia tak khochu nazvat' kino." "Naivnoe pis'mo": opyt lingvo-sotsiologicheskogo chteniia. Moskva: Gnosis, Russkoe fenomenologicheskoe obshchestva, 1996.
• Krasnova, G., et al,eds. Na perekrestkakh kino. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 1993.
• Krishtul, Boris. Kinoprodiuser. Moskva: Rossiiskii fond kul'tury and Russkaia panorama, 2000.
• Kudriavtsev, Sergei, Svoe kino. Moskva: Dubl'-D, 1998.
• Kuznetsov, Georgii. Zhurnalist na ekrane. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1985.
• Lary, N.M. Dostoevsky and Soviet Film: Visions of Demonic Realism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.
• Lawton, Anna, ed. An Introduction to Soviet Cinema. Special Report. Washington, DC: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1987.
• --, ed. The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Lenfilm and the Liberation of Soviet Cinema. Stichting Film Festival. tijgerreeks 4. Rotterdam, 1990.
• Lepestkova, Olga. "Calocagathy, or the Cinematic Image of Reality." Re-Entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture. Ed. Ellen E. Berry and Aness Miller-Pogacar. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• Lifshits, G.M., comp. Fil'm na perekrestke mnenii. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 1990.
• Listov, Viktor, ed. Rossiiskoe kino: parodoksy obnovleniia. Moskva: Materik, 1995.
• Loginov, Vladlen. "Istoriia i my." Iz lektsii, prochitannykh na fakul'tete dopolnitel'nogo professional'nogo obrazovaniia. Moskva: VGIK, 2001.
• Lotman, Juri. "On the Language of Animated Cartoons." Trans. Ruth Sobel. Film Theory and General Semiotics. Ed. Ann Shukman. Oxford: Russian Poetics in Translation, 1981.
• --. Semiotics of Cinema. Tr. Mark Suino. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1976.
• --. Semiotika kino i problemy kinoestetiki. Tallin: Eesti Raamat, 1973.
• -- and Yuri Tsivian. Dialog s ekranom. Tallinn: Aleksandra, 1994.
• MacFadyen, David. Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film Since World War Two. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's UP, 2005.
• Mal'kova, Liliana. Sovremennost' kak istoriia: Realizatsiia mifa v dokumental'nom kino. Moskva: Materik, 2002.
• Mamoon, Trina N. "(Re)Re-reading Pushkin." Russian Literature on the Silver Screen. Russian Studies in Literature 40.2 (Spring 2004): 34-51.
• Marshall, Herbert. Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled Creative Biographies. NY: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
• --. Soviet Cinema. N.p.: A "Russia Today" Publication, March 1945.
• Mart'ianova, Irina. Kinovek russkogo teksta: paradoks literaturnoi kinematografichnosti. St. P.: SAGA, 2002.
• ---. Tekst kinostsenariia i kinostsenarii teksta. Seriia "Filologicheskaia mozaika." St. P.: Nauka and SAGA, 2003.
• Mayne, Judith. Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1989.
• Mel'vil', Liudmila. Kino i "estetika razrusheniia." Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1984.
• Messer, R. Geroi sovetskoi kinematografii. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1938.
• Micciché, Lino. "The Cinema of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian Soviet Republics." The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Ed. Anna Lawton. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Michaels, Paula. "Prisoners of the Caucasus: From Colonial to Postcolonial Narrative." Russian Literature on the Silver Screen. Russian Studies in Literature. 40.2 (Spring 2004): 52-77.
• Mikhal'chenko, Svetlana A. Ekranizatsiia--interpretatsiia. Uchebnoe posobie. Moskva: VGIK, 2001.
• Mikhalkov, Nikita. "Russian Cinema--National Cinema? Three Views: 'The Function of a National Cinema' (May 1998)." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 50-52.
• Moskvina, Tatiana. "La Grande Illusion." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 91-104.
• Moskvina-Iashchenko, Tat'iana and Tat'iana Nemchinskaia, comp. Kino Rossii 90-e gody: Tsena svobody. Moskva: Soiuz kinematografistov and Atalanta, 2001.
• Moss, Kevin. "A Russian Munchausen: Aesopian Translation." Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter With a Lash. Ed. Andrew Horton. NY: Cambridge UP, 1993.
• Noussinova, Natalia. "The Soviet Union and the Russian Émigrés." The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.
• Passek, Jean-Loup, ed. Le cinéma russe et soviétique. Paris: L'Equerre, 1981.
• Petrie, Graham and Ruth Dwyer, eds. Before the Wall Came Down: Soviet and East European Filmmakers Working in the West. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1990.
• Plakhov, Andrei. "No Sex in the USSR." Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video. Ed. Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, and John Greyson. Trans. J. Jezioro. NY: Routledge, 1993. 177-185.
• Pondopulo, Gleb and Marianna Rostotskaia. Novye iskusstva i sovremennaia kul'tura: Fotografiia i kino. Moskva: VGIK, 1997.
• Radvanyi, Jean, ed. Le cinéma georgien. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1988.
• Radvanyi, Jean. "Cinema in the Soviet Republics." The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.
• Raushenbakh, B.V. et al., eds. Problemy sinteza v khudozhestvennoi kul'ture. Moskva: Nauka, 1985.
• Repertuarnyi ukazatel'. Moscow: Kinofotoizdat, 1936.
• Roberts, Graham. Forward Soviet!: History and non-fiction film in the USSR. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999.
• Robinson, Harlow. "'The Most Contemporary Art': Sergei Prokofiev and Soviet Film." Studies in Comparative Communism 17.3-4 (Fall/Winter 1984): 203-18.
• Roshal', Lev. Za kadrami pravdy: poeziia fakta i avtorskaia tochka zreniia. Moskva: SK SSSR/Vsesoiuznoe biuro propagandy kinoiskusstva, 1986.
• Schitzer, Luda & Jean and Marcel Martin, ed. Cinema in Revolution. NY: Hill & Wang, 1973.
• Selyanov, Sergueï. "L'idée russe." Cinémas d'Europe du Nord: De Fritz Lang à Lars von Trier. Paris: Editions mille et une nuits, 1998. 233-246.
• --. "Russian Cinema--National Cinema? Three Views: 'Cinema and Life' (October 1977)." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 43-46.
• Shukman, Ann, ed.Film Theory and General Semiotics. Russian Poetics in Translation 8. Oxford: RPT Pub., 1981.
• Sirivlia, Natal'ia. "Krizis srednego vozrasta." Iskusstvo kino 7 (1998):4-17.
• Sokolov, I. Istoriia sovetskogo kinoiskusstva zvukogo perioda. Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1946.
• Stites, Richard. "Soviet Movies for the Masses and for Historians." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 11.2 (1991): 243-252.
• Taylor, Richard. "Now that the Party's Over: Soviet Cinema and Its Legacy." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 34-42.
• Tolstykh, Valentin. "Soviet Film Satire Yesterday and Today." Trans. Andrew Andreev. Ed. Andrew Horton. Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter With a Lash. NY: Cambridge UP, 1993.
• Troshin, Aleksandr. Vremia ostanavlivaetsia: Kino--teatr--melevidenie--zhizn'. Moskva: Eizenshtein Tsentr, 2002.
• Tsikounas, Myriam. Les origines du cinéma soviétique: un regard nuef. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1992.
• Tsivian, Yuri. "The Case of the Bioscope Beetle: Starewicz's Answer to Genetics." Discourse 17.3 (Spring 1995): 119-125.
• Tsyrkun, Nina. "Tinkling Symbols: Fragmented Society--Fragmented Cinema?" Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 57-65.
• Turovskaia, Maia. Blow-Up, ili Geroi bezgeroinogo vremeni-2. Moskva: MIK, 2003.
• --. Pamiati tekushchego mgnoveniia. Moskva: Sovetskii pisatel', 1987.
• Turovskaya, Maya. "Woman and the 'Woman Question' in the USSR" and "Women's Cinema in the USSR." Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era. Ed Lynne Attwood. London: Pandora, 1993.
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• Varshavskii, Iakov. Vstrecha s fil'mom. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1962.
• Vernitski, Anat. "Post-Soviet film adaptations of the Russian classics: traditiona and inovation." Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the word. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 194-205.
• Vishevsky, Anatoly. "'The Queen of Spades' Revisited, and Revisited, and Revisited..." Russian Literature on the Silver Screen. Russian Studies in Literature 40.2 (Spring 2004): 20-33.
• Vorontsov, Iurii and Igor' Rachuk. The Phenomenon of Soviet Cinema. Moskva: Progress, 1980.
• Vronskaya, Jeanne. Young Soviet Film Makers. London: Allen & Unwin, 1972.
• Widdis, Emma. "Viewed From Below: Subverting the Myths of the Soviet Landscape." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 66-75.
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• Yampolsky [Iampol'skii], Mikhail. The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film. Trans. Harsha Ram. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.
• --. "Nornstein and Khrzhanovski: The Space of the Animated Film." Afterimage 13 (Autumn, 1987).
• --. Pamiat' Tiresiia: intertekstual'nost' i kinematograf. Moskva: RIK "Kul'tura," 1993.
• --. Problema intertekstual'nosti v kinematografe. Avtoreferat dissertatsii na soiskanie uchenoi stepeni doktora iskusstvovedeniia. Moskva: NNII Kinoiskusstva, 1991.
• --. Vidimyi mir: ocherki rannei kinofenomenologii. Moskva: Prilozhenie k zhurnalu Kinovedcheskie zapiski, 1993.
• Zak, Mark. Kinoprotsess. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 1990.
• Zhabskii, M., K. Tarasov, and Iu. Fokht-Babushkin. Kino v sovremennom obshchestve: Funktsii. Vozdeistvie. Vostrebovannost'. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva, 2000.
• Zhuravkina, Natasha. "Fathers for the Fatherland: The Cult of the Leader in Russian Cinema." Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 105-113.

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