Author: Tsivian
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cinema, soviet, reception, cultural, russia
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1994-12-09
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415071356
ISBN-13: 9780415071352

In Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. Tsivian traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films, from actors, novelists, poets, writers, and journalists. His richly detailed study of the physical elements of cinematic performance includes the architecture and illumination of the ci

Author: Yuri Tsivian
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, film, bfi, terrible, ivan
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 085170834X
ISBN-13: 9780851708348

Illustrated Sergei Eisenstein envisaged Ivan the Terrible (1944/46)-his highly stylised life of the sixteenth-century Russian Tsar-as a trilogy, but he died in 1948 before he could even really begin the third part. Whereas Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stalin prize, Part Two met with the Kremlin’s disfavour, which was communicated to Eisenstein by Zhdanov, Molotov and Stalin himself, and was banned until 1958. Ivan the Terrible is a ruin, but a glorious one, with its director at the height of his powers. Yuri Tsivian has conducted extensive research in the Soviet ar

Authors:Yuri Tsivian, Richard Taylor,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: reception, cultural, russia, cinema
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226814262
ISBN-13: 9780226814261

Early Cinema in Russia chronicles one of the great lost periods in cinema history, that of Pre-Revolutionary Russia. In contrast to standard film histories, Yuri Tsivian focuses on reflected images: it features the historical film-goer and early writings on film as well as examining the physical elements of cinematic performance. "Tsivian casts a probing beam of illumination into some of the most obscure areas of film history. And the terrain he lights up with his careful assembly and insightful reading of the records of early film viewing in Russia not only changes our sense of the histo