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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Early Russian Cinema
    part number: Volume Seven
    part name: Evgenii Bauer (1914-1915)
  title info:
    title: Girl From the Street (Devushka s ulitsy) (1914)
  title info:
    title: A Child of the Big City (1914)
  title info:
    title: 1002nd Ruse (1915)
  title info:
    title: Daydreams (1915)
  name:
    name part: Bauėr, Evgeniĭ Fran�t�sevich
    name part: 1865-1917
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: screenwriter.
  name:
    name part: Sargeant, Erich
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Khanzhonkov, Aleksandr Alekseevich
    name part: 1877-1945
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  name:
    name part: Khanzhonkov Production Company
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Milestone Film & Video
    role:
      role term: film distributor.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Silent films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: rus
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (94 minutes)
  abstract: These three contrasting films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal something of the distinctive eroticism of his work and indeed of early Russian cinema as a whole. The two longer films share the common feature of a male victim, in marked contrast to the female victim of most melodrama; while the comedy The 1002nd Ruse celebrates a knowing female sexuality that would almost certainly not be found in any contemporary American equivalent (although it has much in common with the contemporary sex comedies of Lubitsch and DeMille). A Child of the Big City traces the heroine Mon'ka's evolution from a poor innocent seamstress to a monster of depravity and egotism. Her 'rise' is paralleled by the fall of her idealistic admirer, Viktor, who finally commits suicide in face of her callous disregard. Film historian Miriam Hansen has noted this unusual variation on the familiar melodrama schema of the male aggressor and female victim: Bauer's contemporary urban and upper-class settings display male ruin and inadequacy as an effect of the real or imagined revenge of a powerful woman. Daydreams is regarded by many as Bauer's surviving masterpiece. Film historian and archivist Paolo Cherchi Usai describes it as 'a masterful balance between subject technique and narrative development. The tension in the plot (reminding one of Hitchcock's Vertigo) reaches its climax in the extraordinary tracking shot during which the camera quite literally follows the main character along a deserted street, stops when he stops, then tracks back slowly, while he retraces his route. Necrophilia, mysticism and abstraction are the main ingredients of a tale with an astonishing and eerie finale.' [Silent Witnesses, ed. Tsivian et al, London/Pordenone: 1989] A CHILD OF THE BIG CITY (Ditia bol'shogo goroda) Alternative title: The Girl From the Street (Devushka s ulitsy). Director/Art Director: Evgeni Bauer. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Compony: Khanzhonkov. Released March 5, 1914. Ca…
  target audience: adult
  note: produced by Khanzhonkov Production Company.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed February 03, 2017).
  note: Director, Evgenii Bauer ; photography, Boris Zavelev (in the 1st work) ; director/screenplay, Evgenii Bauer (in the 2nd work) ; Director, Evegnii Bauer ; screenplay, M. Basov, Valentin Turkin ; photography, Boris Zavelev (in the 3rd work).
  note: Silent with Russian and English subtitles.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    geographic: Russia
  subject:
    topic: Silent films
    geographic: Russia
  subject:
    geographic: Russia
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 170203
    record change date: 20260324205749.5
    record identifier: in00003944066
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng