Inside the Film Factory by Ian Christie, Professor Richard Ta... - 9780415049511

Taylor & Francis

A collection of essays that use new methodological approaches and original archival material to study Soviet film. The book includes the first account in English of the careers of Protazanov and Barnet. > \nThis is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital task of scrutinising Soviet film, and re-examining the Cold War assumptions of traditional historiography.\nWhereas most books on Soviet giants have glorified the directorial giants of the `golden age' of the 1920s, Inside the Film Factory also recognises the achievements of popular cinema from the pre-Revolutionary period through to the 1930s and beyond. It also evaluates the impact of Western cinema on the early experimenters of montage, Russian science fiction's influence on film-mr