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Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

4. Russo-Soviet Cinema

4.5. Russo-Soviet Cinema: The Thaw, 1953-1967

• Anninskii, Lev. Shestidesiatniki i my. Moskva: SK SSSR/Kinotsentr, 1991.
• Binder, Eva and Christine Engel, eds. Eisenstiens Erben: Der sowjetische Film vom Tauwetter zur Perestrojka (1953-1991). Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, 2002.
• Christie, Ian. "Back in the USSR." Sight and Sound 36.6 (Nov/Dec 2000): 39-42.
• Dzhulai, Liudmila. Dokumental'nyi illiuzion: Otechestvennyi kinodokumental'izm--opyty sotsial'nogo tvorchestva. Moskva: Materik, 2001.
• Fomin, Valerii, ed. Kinematograf ottepeli: Dokumenty i svidetel'stva. Moskva: Materik, 1998.
• Graffy, Julian. "Film adaptations of Aksenov: the Young Prose and the cinema of the Thaw." Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the word. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 100-115.
• --. "Scant Sign of Thaw: Fear and Anxiety in the Representation of Foreigners in the Soviet Films of the Khrushchev Years." In Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue . Ed. Stephen Hutchings. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 27-46.
• Iurenev, Rostislav. "Khlopoty o kritike." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 221-237.
• Izvolova, Irina. "Dialog s real'nost'iu." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 160-210.
• ---. "Drugoe prostranstvo." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 77-98.
• Kalik, Mikhail. "Stranitsy zhizni 'abstraktnogo gumanista'." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 216-220.
• Khutsiev, Marlen. "Ia nikogda ne delal polemichnykh fil'mov." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 190-196.
• Kunitsyn, Georgii. "Pochemu ia ne stal ministrom kinematografii." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 197-203.
• Liehm, Mira and Antonin J. The Most Important Art: Soviet and East European Film After 1945. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1977.
• Lungin, Semen. "Schastlivaia epokha stsenarnogo sochinitel'stva." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 185-189.
• Margolit, Evgenii. "Dialog pokolenii." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 118-131.
• ---. "Kinematograf 'ottepeli': K portretu fenomena." Kinovedcheskie zapiski 61 (2002): 195-230.
• ---. "Landscape, with Hero." Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/Viewing the 1960s. Ed. Alexander Prokhorov. Trans. Dawn Seckler. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium, 2001. 29-50.
• ---. "Otblesk kostra, ili nastoiashchii konets bol'shoi voiny." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 85-119.
• ---. "Peizazh s geroem." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 99-117.
• ---. "Proshchanie s 'ukhodiashchei naturoi'." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 211-227.
• Martin, Michel. Cinéma soviétique: de Khrouchtev à Gorbatchev. Lausanne: L'Age d'homme, 1993.
• Petrov, Petre. "The Freeze of Historicity in Thaw Cinema." KinoKultura 8 (April 2005).
• Poloka, Gennadii. "Uvazhenie k sobstvennym traditsiiam." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 204-215.
• Prokhorov, Alexander. "The Adolescent and the Child in the Cinema of the Thaw." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 1.2 (2007): 115-129.
• ---. "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.
• ---. "The Unknown New Wave: Soviet Cinema of the Sixties." Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/Viewing the 1960s. Ed. Alexander Prokhorov. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium, 2001. 7-28.
• Prokhorov, Alexander, ed. Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/Viewing the 1960s. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium, 2001.
• Pustynskaia, Liudmila. "KHRONIKA, 1953-1970, daty i fakty: Kinematograf ottepeli v sotsial'no-poilitcheskom i kul'turnom kontekste." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 384-448.
• Semerchuk, Vladimir. "Slova velikie i prostye." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 60-84.
• ---. "'Smena vekh' na iskhode ottepeli." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 120-159.
• Shemiakin, Andrei. "Chuzhaia rodnia." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianoviskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 238-261.
• ---. "Dialog s literaturoi, ili Opisanye sviazi." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 132-169.
• Shilova, Elena. ...i moe kino. Moskva: NII Kinoiskusstva/Kinovedcheskie zapiski, 1993.
• Sveitser, Mikhail. "Ottepel' otkryla liudiam, chto mozhno byt' luchshe." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996. 180-184.
• Thaw Cinema. Intro. Evgenii Margolit. CD-ROM. Artima Studio. Washington, DC: The Ford Foundation and NCEEER; Pittsburgh: REES, 2002.
• Tiazhel'nikova, V. S. "'S zhul'em, dopustim, nado borot'sia!': Neformal'naia ekonomicheskaia aktivnost' v 1960-e gody." Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (December 2003): 101-107.
• Troianovskii, Vitalii. "Chelovek ottepeli (50-e gody)." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 1996.
• ---. "Novye liudi 60-kh godov." Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Ed. Vitalii Troianovskii. Moskva: Materik, 2002. 6-60.
• Troianovskii, Vitalii, ed. Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga pervaia. Moskva: Materik, 1996.
• ---, ed. Kinematograf ottepeli. Kniga vtoraia. Moskva: Materik, 2002.
• Vail', Petr. "60-e: sovetskoe kino i stil' epokhi. Razmyshleniia i kommentarii." Close-Up: Istoriko-teoreticheskii seminar vo VGIKe: Lektsii 1996-1998 gody. Ed. Aleksandr troshin. Moskva: VGIK, 1999. 230-233.
• Woll, Josephine. Real Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.

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