Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Preface 8
5. Acknowledgments 10
6. Image Credits 12
7. Part One
8. Early Russian Cinema 1908-1919 14
9. New Notes on Russian Film Culture between 1908 and 1919 32
10. Sten’ka Razin 43
11. The Cameraman’s Revenge/Mest’ kinematograficheskogo operatora 48
12. The Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter/Doch’ kuptsa Bashkirova 52
13. Child of the Big City/Ditia bol’shogo goroda
14. Introduction 55
15. The Scheherezade of the Boulevard Novel. A Piquant Mix of the Vulgar and the Proper 61
16. Part Two
17. Soviet Silent Cinema 1918-1930 66
18. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks/Neobychainye prikliucheniia mistera Vesta v strane bol’shevikov
19. Introduction 87
20. Mr. Kuleshov in the Land of the Modernists 95
21. A Subtextual Reading of Kuleshov’s Satire The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) 101
22. Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potemkin
23. Introduction 107
24. Monumental Heroics: The Silent Films 116
25. Bed and Sofa/Tret’ia Meshchanskaia
26. Introduction 144
27. Bed and Sofa 146
28. Life into Art: Laying Bare the Theme in Bed and Sofa 155
29. Man with a Movie Camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom 172
30. Earth/Zemlia
31. Introduction 192
32. Earth 197
33. Part Three
34. Stalinist Cinema 1928-1953 208
35. Chapaev
36. Introduction 235
37. Chapaev 240
38. The Elements and Consciousness: The Commander and the Commissar 245
39. Circus/Tsirk 250
40. Ivan the Terrible/Ivan Groznyi 269