Kino-Books ::: Publications about Russian Cinema

Fresh from the press:

Stephen Norris: Blockbuster History in the New Russia, Indiana UP 2012.

Jeremy Hicks: First Films of the Holocaust. Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938–1946, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Reading Lists/Bibliographies

Birgit Beumers' bibliography

Full Bibliography on Russian and Soviet Cinema (Pittsburgh)

Journals

srsc Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. Published three times a year

 

New Books in Russian:

Евгений Марголит. Живые и мертвое. Заметки к истории советского кино 1920–1960-х годов. СПб. Сеанс 2012

Серия - Библиотека кинодраматурга («Сеанс» и Амфора)

 

Multi-Media Sources

In January 2010 RUSCICO launches a new series ACADEMIA which presentс classics of Soviet cinema.

akademia

Price: $10 

(plus $2 for shipping outside US)

Thaw Cinema CD ROM

Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES)

4400 W.W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh PA 15260

email: crees@ucis.pitt.edu

 

Introduction by Evgeni Margolit. Annotated catalogue of over 300 feature films. Biographies, Filmographies, Bibliographies. 2000 illustrations and photos. 70 production sketches. 130 cinema posters. Excerpts from memoirs. Film reviews. 17 video fragments.

 


Аркус, Любовь, ред. Энциклопедия отечественного кино. 2007

 

Cinema of Central Asia:
Collection of Ten Films (subtitlled, on DVD) by the Open Society Institute, Budapest,
edited by Gulnara Abikeeva

Shukhrat Abbasov, You are not an Orphan (Uzbekistan, 1963)
Melis Ubukeev, White Mountains (Kyrgyzstan, 1964)
Boris Kimyagarov, Hasan-Arbakesh (Tadjikistan, 1965)
Shaken Aimanov, The Land of the Fathers (Kazakhstan, 1966)
Hodzhakuli Narliev, Daughter-in-Law (Turkmenistan, 1972)

Bakhtior Khudoinazarov, Kosh-ba-kosh (Tadjikistan, 1993)
Usman Saparov, Little Angel, make me Happy (Turkmenistan, 1993)
Serik Aprymov, Aksuat (Kazakhstan, 1997)
Yusup Razykov, The Orator (Uzbekistan, 1998)
Aktan Abdykalykov, Beshkempir (Kyrgyzstan, 1998)

To obtain this set of ten films with an introductory booklet, universities and other educational institutions should write on letter-headed paper to the Open Society Institute, Andrea Csanadi, Program Manager/Arts & Culture Network Program and request a copy. The DVD set is free of charge, but institutions should arrange to pay for the shipment. Click for a flyer and further information.

 

"Kino" Series and BFI Classics

KINO: The Filmmakers' Companions I.B. Tauris 2005

          

KinoFiles

[1] Richard Taylor: The Battleship Potemkin (2000)

[2] Graham Roberts: The Man with the Movie Camera (2000)

[3] Birgit Beumers: Burnt by the Sun (2000)

        

   

[4] J. Woll & D. Youngblood: Repentance, 2001

[5] Julian Graffy: Bed and Sofa (2001)

[6] Natasha Synessiou: Mirror (2001)

 

[7] Josephine Woll: The Cranes are Flying (2003)

[8] Frank Beardow: Little Vera (2003)

[9] Joan Neuberger: Ivan the Terrible (2003)

[10] Vance Kepley: The End of St Petersburg (2003)

      
storm      chapaev

[11] Amy Sargeant: Storm over Asia (2007)

[12] Julian Graffy: Chapaev 2010

BFI CLASSICS

Ivan the Terrible by Yuri Tsivian (2001)

October by Richard Taylor (2002)

Andrei Rublev by Robert Bird (2004)

   


Updated: December 2012