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The Alexander Medvedkin reader /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Medvedkin, Alexander (Author)
Other Authors: Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988 (Compiler, Translator), Lary, N. M. (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Series:Cinema and modernity.
Subjects:
Medvedkin, Alexander.
Motion pictures > Soviet Union.
Motion pictures.
Soviet Union.
Table of Contents:
  • On the front lines of war and revolution
  • Cavalry days
  • The kino-train: 294 days on wheels
  • Soldiers shooting films
  • Scripts
  • A little log
  • Stop thief!
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • A cock and bull story
  • Hey fool, what a fool you are!
  • Tit
  • Look what love did!
  • A crazy locomotive
  • "The unholy force"
  • "Gogol"
  • Satire : a militant art
  • The elation of fighting (ca. 1985)
  • Satire: an assailant's weapon (ca. 1966)
  • Bronze monuments
  • Springboards (ca. 1985)
  • Contextualizations
  • Eisenstein on Medvedkin's Chaplinesque genius
  • Anatoli Lunacharsky, "film comedy and satire" (excerpt)
  • Nikolai Izvolov, "Alexander Medvedkin and the traditions of Russian film"
  • Nikita Lary, "history of the Alexander Medvedkin reader"
  • CVs and addenda
  • First "autobiography": a Bolshevik's CV
  • Second "autobiography": a filmmaker's CV
  • Marina Goldovskaia, interviews with Medvedkin (excerpts)
  • The suppression of happiness
  • Color film in happiness
  • Remembrance and revival
  • The kino-train filmography (trans. Jay Leyda)
  • Surviving kino-train films
  • Chris Marker, "the last Bolshevik."