Russian and Soviet Cinema

Slavic Studies Librarianship Blog

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:36:46 -0700

Related Film Sites for Russian and Soviet Cinema

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:33:20 -0700

Useful article databases

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:11:21 -0700

Films of Kira Muratova

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:52:56 -0700

Source: http://kira-muratova.narod.ru/

Эсфирь Шуб (Esfir Shub)

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:21:23 -0700

Esther Shub was born on March 3, 1894 in the Chernigovsky District of the Ukraine, and moved to Moscow as a student. There, she became part of the artistic avant-garde, and soon turned her talents to film. According to Graham Roberts in History Today, she later wrote in her memoirs that she saw film as "a method of expressing all that the Great October Revolution had brought," and noted that for her country, "A new life was beginning." A few years before, the bloody upheaval of the Russian Revolution had resulted in the Soviet takeover of the country, and many people were filled with ideological optimism about the new government. Shub applied several times for a job in film, and was refused several times, but she persisted. Eventually she was accepted for a job in the film section of the Commissariat of the Enlightenment.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/esther-shub#ixzz29ChHyDiq

Dzhiga Vertov

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:58:41 -0700

Дзи́га Ве́ртов (при рождении Давид А́белевич Ка́уфман, впоследствии известен также как Денис Абрамович и Денис Аркадьевич Кауфман; 1895/1896—1954) — советский кинорежиссёр, один из основателей и теоретиков документального кино. Обогатил кинематограф множеством операторских приёмов и техник, включая методику «скрытая камера»[1]. Его фильм «Человек с киноаппаратом» (1929) часто называют величайшим из всех документальных фильмов в истории.

Source:

http://www.vertov.ru/Dziga_Vertov

http://www.cinemetrics.lv/movie.php?movie_ID=2810

http://goo.gl/jsQH3

Source: Материал из Википедии

Lev Kuleshov

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:11:12 -0700

Лев Влади́мирович Кулешо́в (1899—1970) — советский кинорежиссёр, теоретик кино. Народный артист РСФСР.

Source:

http://goo.gl/191Sh

http://goo.gl/ID0QL

Sergei Eisenstein

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:41:32 -0700

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage". He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). (source: wikimaterials).

Selected Primary Sources at UC Berkeley Library

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:27:17 -0700

Useful Library of Congress Subject Headings

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:46:13 -0700

Materials about Russian cinema can be found in Oskicat or Melvyl by doing a subject search using the following headings

Cinematography -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.

Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.

Motion Pictures—Russia

Motion Pictures—Soviet

Motion Pictures—Russia (Federation)

Selected Films at Pacific Film Archive

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:10:15 -0700

Selected Books on Russian and Soviet Cinema

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:52:41 -0700

Selected Film Posters (Fair academic use only)

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:56:22 -0700

Soviet Cinema RSS Feed

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:35:13 -0700

Selected journal articles

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:20:41 -0700

Selected online journals

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:59:56 -0700

Mosfilm on YouTube

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:56:17 -0700

Mosfilm is a film studio often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production and the epic Война и Мир / War and Peace. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCxQThQOtbk6M)

Lenfilm on YouTube

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:44:10 -0700

The facilities and land of the Leningrad film studio were nationalized in 1918 and it was established as a Soviet State-funded film industry. Within just a few years it bore several different names, such as "Petrograd Cinema Committee" and "SevZapKino" among various others. In 1923 the nationalized Aquarium garden was merged with "SevZapKino" and several smaller studios to form the Soviet State-controlled film industry in St. Petersburg. During 1924 - 1926 it was temporarily named Leningrad Film Factory Goskino and eventually changed its name several times during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1934 it was named Lenfilm (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenfilm)

Ukrainian film studio VUFKU

lpendse@library.berkeley.edu (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:30:05 -0700