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Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

4. Russo-Soviet Cinema

4.4. Russo-Soviet Cinema: Stalinism, 1930s-1953

• Anderson, Trudy. "Why Stalinist Musicals?" Discourse 17.3 (Spring 1995): 38-48.
• Arossev, Aleksandr, ed. Soviet Cinema. Moskva: VOKS, 1935.
• Bagdasarian, B. E. "Obraz vraga v istoricheskikh fil'makh 1930-1940-kh godov." Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (December 2003): 31-46.
• Bagrov. Peter. "Ermler, Stalin, and Animation: On the Film The Peasants (1934)." Trans. Vladimir Padunov. KinoKultura 15 (January 2007).
• Bazin, André. "The Stalin Myth in Soviet Culture." Movies and Methods. vol. 2. Ed. Bill Nichols. Intro. Dudley Andrews. Berkeley: U of California P, 1985. 29-40.
• Bulgakowa, Oksana. "Sovetskie krasavitsy v stalinskom kino." Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. Ed. Marina Balina, Evgenii Dobrenko, and Iurii Murashov. St. Peterburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002. 391-411.
• ---. "Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s." Trans. Jeffrey Karlsen. The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space. Ed. Evgeny Dobrenko and Eric Naiman. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2003. 51-76.
• Bulgakowa, Oksana, ed. Die ungewöhnlichen Abenteuer des Dr. Mabuse im Lande der Bolschewiki: Das Buch zur Filmreihe "Moskau--Berlin." Berlin: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, 1995.
• Christie, Ian. "Canons and Careers: The Director in Soviet Cinema." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• --. "Making Sense of Early Soviet Sound." Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie. London: Routledge, 1991.
• --. "Soviet Cinema: Making Sense of Sound." Screen 23.2 (July-Aug 1982): 34-49.
• Dashkova, T. Iu. "Liubov' i byt v kinolentakh 1930 - nachala 1950-kh godov." Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (December 2003): 59-67.
• Dobrenko, Evgeny. "Creation Myth and Myth Creation in Stalinist Cinema." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 1.3 (2007): 239-264.
• ---. "Late Stalinist Cinema and the Cold War: An Equation Without Unknowns." Trans. Birgit Beumers. The Modern Language Review 98.4 (October 2003): 929-944.
• ---. "Muzyka vmesto sumbura: Narodnost' kak problema muzykal'noi kinokomedii stalinskoi epokhi." Revue des Études slaves 67.2-3 (1995): 407-433.
• ---. "Ordena, oni zhe liudi, ili istoriia s biografiei." Kinovedcheskie zapiski 74 (2005): 18-56.
• ---. "The Russia We Acquired: Russian Classics, the Stalinist Cinema, and the Past from the Revolutionary Perspective." Trans. Liv Bliss. Russian Studies in Literature 37.4 (Fall 2001): 61-91.
• Drobaschenko, Sergej and Manfred Hagen. Sowjetisch Filmpropaganda zur Westexpansion der UdSSR, 1939-1940: Ausgewählte Berichte der Staatswochenschau "Sojuskinoschurnal". Göttingen: Institut den Wissenschaftlichen Film, 1999.
• Dzhulai, Liudmila. Dokumental'nyi illiuzion: Otechestvennyi kinodokumental'izm--opyty sotsial'nogo tvorchestva. Moskva: Materik, 2001.
• Graffy, Julian. "Urban Legends: Ten Cities that Shook Cinema." Sight & Sound June 2000: 26-29.
• Günther, Hans. "Wise Father Stalin and His Family in Soviet Cinema." Socialist Realism Without Shores. Ed. Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
• Gurevich, Stella. Leningradskoe kinovedenie: Zubovskii osobniak, 1925-1936 (Istoriko-kriticheskii ocherk). Sankt Peterburg: Rossiiskii Institut Istorii Iskusstv, 1998.
• Haynes, John. New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003.
• Hoberman, J. "A Face to the Shtetl: Soviet Yiddish Cinema, 1924-36." Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie. London: Routledge, 1991.
• Iurenev, Rostislav. Sovetskoe kinoiskusstvo tridtsatykh godov. Moskva: VGIK, 1997.
• Kenez, Peter. "Black and White: The War on Film." Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia. Ed. Richard Stites. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.
• --. Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953. NY: Cambridge UP, 1992.
• --. "Films of the Second World War." The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Ed. Anna Lawton. London: Routledge, 1992.
• --. "Jewish Themes in Stalinist Films." Journal of Popular Culture 31.4 (Spring 1998): 159-169.
• --. "Soviet Cinema in the Age of Stalin." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• --. "Soviet Cinema Under Stalin." The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.
• Kepley, Vance Jr. "Building a National Cinema: Soviet Film Education, 1918-1934." WideAngle 9.3 (1987): 4-20.
• --. "The Workers' International Relief and the Cinema of the Left, 1921-1935." Cinema Journal 23.1 (Fall 1983): 7-23.
• Kherroubi, Aïcha and Valérie Posener. Le Studio Mejrabpom: ou l'aventure du cinéma privé au pays des bolcheviks. Les Dossiers du musée d'Orsay 59. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996.
• Khokhlova, Ekaterina. "Forbidden Films of the 1930s." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Khrenov, Andrei. "Power and Technology as the Political-Aesthetic Project: Towards the Similarity of the Russian Avant-Garde of the Twenties and Stalinist Cinema." The Harriman Review 12.4 (November 2000): 20-24.
• Kozlov, Leonid. "The Artist and the Shadow of Ivan." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Lahusen, Thomas. "Ot nesinkhronizirovannogo smekha k post-sinkhronizovannoi komedii, ili Kak stalinskii miuzikl dognal i peregnal Gollivud." Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. Ed. Marina Balina, Evgenii Dobrenko, and Iurii Murashov. St. Peterburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002. 342-357.
• Latyshev, A. "Stalin i kino." Surovaia drama naroda. Ed. Iu. P. Senokozov. Moscow: Politizdat, 1989. 489-507.
• Lawton, Anna. "The Ghost That Does Return: Exorcising Stalin." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Liebman, Stuart. "Once Upon a Time in the Soviet Union." Cineaste 24.1 (1998): 76-80.
• Liehm, Mira and Antonin J. The Most Important Art: Soviet and East European Film After 1945. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1977.
• Mal'kova, Liliana. Sovremennost' kak istoriia: Realizatsiia mifa v dokumental'nom kino. Moskva: Materik, 2002.
• Mamatova, Lidiia. Kino: politika i liudi: 30-ye gody. Moskva: Materik, 1995.
• Mar'iamov, Grigorii. Kremlevskii tsenzor: Stalin smotrit kino. Moskva: Kinotsentr, 1992.
• Marshall, Herbert. Soviet Cinema. London: Russia Today, 1945.
• Miller, Jamie. "Educating the Filmmakers: The State Institute of Cinematography in the 1930s." The Slavonic and East European Review 85.3 (July 2007): 462-490.
• ---. "The purges of Soviet cinema, 1929-38." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 1.1 (2007): 5-26.
• Murashov, Iurii. "Slepye geroi--slepye zriteli: O statuse zreniia i slova v sovetskom kino." Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. Ed. Marina Balina, Evgenii Dobrenko, and Iurii Murashov. St. Peterburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002. 412-426.
• Nembach, Eberhard. Stalins Filmpolitik: Der Umbau der sowjetischen Filmindustrie 1929 bis 1938. St. Augustin: Gardez! Verlag, 2001.
• Parfenov, L.A., ed. Zhivye golosa kino: Govoriat vydaiushchiesia mastera otechestvennogo kinoiskusstva (30-e - 40-e gody): Iz neopublikovannogo. Moskva: Belyi bereg, 1999.
• Prokhorov, Alexander. "Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Tropes in Thaw Culture." Diss. U of Pittsburgh, 2002.
• ---. "Soviet Family Melodrama of the 1940s and 1950s: From Wait for Me to The Cranes Are Flying." Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Ed. Louise McReynolds and Joan Neiberger. Durham: Duke UP, 2002: 208-231.
• Rubailo, A.I. Partiinoe rukovodstvo razvitiem kinoiskusstva, 1928-1937 gg. Moscow: MGU, 1976.
• Schmulevitch, Éric. Réalisme socialiste et cinéma: Le cinéma stalinien (1928-1941). Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1996.
• Selunskaya, Valeriya and Maria Zezina. "Documentary Film--A Soviet Source for Soviet Historians." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Short, K.R.M. and Richard Taylor. "Soviet Cinema and the International Menace, 1928-1939." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 6.2 (1986): 131-159.
• Solov'ev, Vladimir. Velikie i nepovtorimye: Aktery russkogo sovetskogo kino 30kh-40kh godov. vol. 2. Moskva: Gosfilmofond Rossii, n.d.
• Spring, Derek. "Soviet newsreel and the Great Patriotic War." Propaganda, politics and film, 1918-1945. Ed. Nicholas Pronay and D.W. Spring. London: MacMillan P, 1982.
• ---. "Stalinism--The Historical Debate." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Stollery, Martin. Alternative Empires: European Modernist Cinemas and Cultures of Imperialism. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 2000.
• Taylor, Richard. "But eastward, look, the land is brighter: towards a topographyy of utopia in the Stalinist musical." 100 Years of European cinema: Entertainment or ideology? Ed. Diana Holmes and Alison Smith. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. 11-26.
• --. "A 'Cinema for the Millions': Soviet Socialist Realism and the Problem of Film Comedy." Journal of Contemporary History 18 (1983): 439-61.
• --. Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. 2^nd rev. ed. London: Taurus, 1998.
• ---. "K topografii utopii v stalinskom miuzikle." Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. Ed. Marina Balina, Evgenii Dobrenko, and Iurii Murashov. St. Peterburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002. 358-370.
• --. "Red Stars, Positive Heroes and Personality Cults." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Taylor, Richard and Ian Christie, eds. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.
• --, eds. Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. London: Routledge, 1991.
• Taylor, Richard and Derek Spring, eds. Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Tokarev, V. A. "'Kara! Panam! Kara!': Pol'skaia tema v predvoennom kino (1939-1941 gody)." Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (December 2003): 47-79.
• Turovskaia, Maia. "Mosfil'm--1937." Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. Ed. Marina Balina, Evgenii Dobrenko, and Iurii Murashov. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002. 277-294.
• Turovskaya, Maya. "The 1930s and 1940s: Cinema in Context." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• --. "Notes on Women and Film." Trans. Jonathan Flatley. Discourse 17.3 (Spring 1995): 7-23.
• --. "Soviet Films of the Cold War." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• --. "The Tastes of Soviet Moviegoers During the 1930s." Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. Ed. Thomas Lahusen, with Gene Kuperman. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.
• Turowskaja, Maja. "Das Kino der totalitären Epoche." Die ungewöhnlichen Abenteuer des Dr. Mabuse im Lande der Bolschewiki: Das Buch zum Filmreihe "Moskau--Berlin". Ed. Oksana Bulgakowa. Berlin: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, 1995. 235-243.
• URSS, 50 ans de cinéma retrouvé. Les Ecrans de la liberté. Paris: La Cinémathèque Française, 1990.
• Widdis, Emma. "Borders: The Aesthetic of Conquest in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s." Journal of European Studies 30.4 (2000): 353-460.
• ---. Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War. New Haven: Yale UP, 2003.
• Yangirov, Rashit. "Onwards and Upwards: The Origins of the Lenin Cult in Soviet Cinema." Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Youngblood, Denise J. "The Fate of Soviet Popular Cinema During the Stalin Revolution." The Russian Review 50 (April 1991): 148-162.
• --. Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918-1935. UMI Research Press, 1985 (reissued: Austin: U of Texas P, 1990).

4.4.1. Socialist Realism

• Balina, Marina, Evgenii Dobrenko, and Iurii Murashov, eds. Sovetskoe bogatstvo: Stat'i o kul'ture, literature i kino. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002.
• Ermolaev, Herman. Soviet Literary Theories, 1917-1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism. NY: Octagon, 1977.
• Günther, Hans and Evgenii Dobrenko, eds. Sotsrealisticheskii kanon. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2000.
• Gutkin, Irina. The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1999.
• James, C. Vaughan. Soviet Socialist Realism: Origins and Theory. NY: St. Martin's P, 1973.
• Listov, V. "Sotsialisticheskii realizm: prevratnosti termina." Kinovedcheskie zapiski. 2 (1988): 5-12.
• Robin, Regine. Socialist Realism. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.

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