[eBook Code] A Companion to Russian Cinema (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments xv

Notes on Transliteration and References xvi

Introduction 1

Birgit Beumers

Part I Structures of Production, Formation, and Exhibition 21

1 The Film Palaces of Nevsky Prospect: A History of St Petersburg’s Cinemas, 1900–1910 23
Anna Kovalova

2 (V)GIK and the History of Film Education in the Soviet Union, 1920s–1930s 45
Masha Salazkina

3 Lenfilm: The Birth and Death of an Institutional Aesthetic 66
Robert Bird

4 The Adventures of the Kulturfilm in Soviet Russia 92
Oksana Sarkisova

5 Soiuzdetfilm: The Birth of Soviet Children’s Film and the Child Actor 117
Jeremy Hicks

Part II For the State or For the Audience? Auteurism, Genre, and Global Markets 137

6 The Stalinist Musical: Socialist Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism 139
Richard Taylor

7 Soviet Film Comedy of the 1950s and 1960s: Innovation and Restoration 158
Seth Graham

8 Auteur Cinema during the Thaw and Stagnation 178
Eugénie Zvonkine

9 The Blokbaster: How Russian Cinema Learned to Love Hollywood 202
Dawn Seckler and Stephen M. Norris

10 The Global and the National in Post?]Soviet Russian Cinema (2004–2012) 224
Maria Bezenkova and Xenia Leontyeva

Part III Sound – Image – Text 249

11 The Literary Scenario and the Soviet Screenwriting Tradition 251
Maria Belodubrovskaya

12 Ideology, Technology, Aesthetics: Early Experiments in Soviet Color Film, 1931–1945 270
Phil Cavendish

13 Learning to Speak Soviet: Soviet Cinema and the Coming of Sound 292
Lilya Kaganovsky

14 Cinema and the Art of Being: Towards a History of Early Soviet Set Design 314
Emma Widdis

15 Stars on Screen and Red Carpet 337
Djurdja Bartlett

16 Revenge of the Cameramen: Soviet Cinematographers in the Director’s Chair 364
Peter Rollberg

Part IV Time and Space, History and Place 389

17 Soldiers, Sailors, and Commissars: The Revolutionary Hero in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s 391
Denise J. Youngblood

18 Defending the Motherland: The Soviet and Russian War Film 409
Stephen M. Norris

19 Shooting Location: Riga 427
Kevin M. F. Platt

20 Capital Images: Moscow on Screen 452
Birgit Beumers

Part V Directors’ Portraits 475

21 Boris Barnet: “This doubly accursed cinema” 477
Julian Graffy

22 Iulii Raizman: Private Lives and Intimacy under Communism 500
Jamie Miller

23 The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy 519
Elena Prokhorova

24 Aleksei Gherman: The Last Soviet Auteur 543
Anthony Anemone

25 Knowledge (Imperfective): Andrei Zviagintsev and Contemporary Cinema 565
Nancy Condee

Appendix Chronology of Events in Russian Cinema and History 585

Bibliography 614

Index 631