Kino-Books ::: Publications about Russian Cinema

Journals Kino & BFI Classics Multi-Media New Russian Titles I.B Tauris Links

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2004

2005 2006 2007

Nathan Dunne, ed. Tarkovsky. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008.
Beumers, Birgit, ed. 24 Frames: The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. London and NY: Wallflower Press, 2007.

Hashamova, Yana. Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books, 2007.
Jeremy Hicks: Dziga Vertov - Defining Documentary Film. London and NY: IB Tauris, 2007
Denise J. Youngblood. Russian War Films. On the Cinema Front 1914-2005. University of Kansas Press, 2007.
 
2006
Tode, Thomas and Barbara Wurm, eds. Dziga Vertov: The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum. Vienna: SYNEMA, 2006.
Robinson, Chris. Estonian Animation: Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy. Eastleigh, UK: John Libbey Publishing, 2006.
Richard Taylor (ed.). Vsevolod Pudovkin: Selected Essays. Seagull Books, 2006

Richard Taylor, The Eisenstein Collection, London: Seagull Books, 2005.
 
2005

Clare Kitson, Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales. London and Bloomington: John Libbey and Indiana University Press, 2005.

David MacFadyen, Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film since WWII. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

Hutchings, Stephen and Anat Vernistski (eds), Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001. Screening   the Word . London: Routledge, 2005

Yuri Tsivian (ed.), Julian Graffy (translator). Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties.  (April 2005)
 
2004
Anna Lawton, Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts. Washington, DC: New
Academia Publishing, 2004.
 
2003

Anne Nesbet. Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking. London: IB Tauris, 2003.

Emma Widdis.   Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War .   New Haven: Yale UP, 2003.

David Gillespie.   Russian Cinema .   Inside Film Series.   NY: Longman, 2003.

David MacFadyen. The Sad Comedy of El'dar Riazanov. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
 
2002

George Liber. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film. London: BFI, 2002.

Eva Binder and Christine Engel, hrsg.   Eisensteins Erben: Der sowjetische Film von Tauwetter zur Perestrojka (1953-1991) .   Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, 2002.
Anna Lawton, Before the Fall: Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2002.

Margarita Tupitsyn.   Malevich and Film .   New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.
 
2001

Amy Sargeant. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-Garde. London: IB Tauris, 2001.
 
2000

Josephine Woll. Real Images. Soviet Cinema of the Thaw . London: IB Tauris, 2000
 
1999

Birgit Beumers (ed.) Russia on Reels. London: IB Tauris, 1999. 

Christine Engel (ed.). Geschichte des sowjetischen und russischen Films . Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler, 1999

 

Journals

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

Volume 1: Issue 1 (November 2006); Issue 2 (March 2007); Issue 3 due in October 2007.

 

Multi-Media Sources

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

[Emma Widdis: Alexander Medvedkin] [Birgit Beumers: Nikita Mikhalkov] 

[Jane Taubmann: Kira Muratova] [John Riley: Dmitri Shostakovich] 

 

          

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)

      

BFI CLASSICS

Ivan the Terrible by Yuri Tsivian (2001)

October by Richard Taylor (2002)

Andrei Rublev by Robert Bird (2004)

   


Links

Full Bibliography on Russian and Soviet Cinema (University of Pittsburgh)

 

Updated: April 2008