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Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

4. Russo-Soviet Cinema

4.1. Russo-Soviet Cinema: General History
  • Abdul-Kasymova, Kh., et al. Istoriia sovetskogo kino, 1917-1967. 4 vol. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1969-1978.
  • Artemov, Vladislav, comp. Aktery kino: anekdoty, kur’ezy, istorii. Zhizn’ zamechatel’nykh liudei. Moskva: AST/Astrel’, 1999.
  • Beumers, Birgit. A History of Russian Cinema. NY: Berg, 2009.
  • Birkos, Alexander S. Soviet Cinema: Directors and Films. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1976.
  • Bryher. Film Problems of Soviet Russia. Territet, Switzerland: n.p., 1929.
  • Budiak, L. M., ed. Rossiiskii illiuzion. Moskva: Materik, 2003.
  • Cohen, Louis. The Cultural–Political Traditions and Developments of the Soviet Cinema, 1917-1972. NY: Arno P, 1974.
  • Deriabin, Aleksandr, ed. Letopis’ rossiiskogo kino: 1863-1929. Moskva: Materik, 2004.
  • –. Letopis’ rossiiskogo kino: 1930-1945. Moskva: Materik, 2007.
  • Dickinson, Thorold and Catherine De la Roche. Soviet Cinema. London: Falcon Press, 1948.
  • Egorova, Tat’iana. Soviet Film Music: An Historical Survey. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic P, 1997.
  • Eisenschitz, Bernard, ed. Lignes d’ombre: Une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968). Milan: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 2000.
  • Engel, Christina, ed. Geschichte des sowjetischen und russischen Films. Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999.
  • Gillespie, David. Russian Cinema. Inside Film Series. NY: Longman, 2003.
  • Iurenev, Rastislav. Kratkaia istoriia sovetskogo kino. Moscow: SK SSSR BPSK, 1979.
  • —. Sovetskaia kinokomediia. Moskva: Nauka, 1964.
  • Kalashnikov, Iurii, ed. Ocherki istorii sovetskogo kino. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956-1961.
  • Khrenov, Nikolai. “Russkoe kino kak edinyi tekst: K arkhetipicheskoi interpretatsii tsivilizatsionnoi identichnosti.” Iskusstvoznanie XXX (3-4, 2007): 482-511.
  • Lebedev, N.A. Ocherk istorii kino SSSR. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1947.
  • Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of Russian and Soviet Film. 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.
  • Liehm, Mira and Antonin J. The Most Important Art: Soviet and East European Film After 1945. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1977.
  • Listov, Viktor. Rossiia. Revoliutsiia. Kinematograf. Moskva: Materik, 1995.
  • Mamatova, Liliia, ed. Shedevry Rossiiskogo kino. Moskva: Andreevskii flag, 2000.
  • Margolit, Evgenii. Sovetskoe kinoiskusstvo: Osnovnye etapy stanovleniia i razvitiia. Kratkii ocherk istorii khudozhestvennogo kino. Moskva: Vsesoiuznyi zaochnyi narodnyi universitet iskusstv, 1988. Reprinted: Kinovedcheskie zapiski 60 (2004): 125-208.
  • Ocherki istorii sovetskogo kino. 3 vol. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956-61.
  • Plakhov, Andreï. “Brève histoire.” Cinémas d’Europe du Nord: De Fritz Lang à Lars von Trier. Paris: Éditions mille et une nuits, 1998. 195-232.
  • –. Soviet Cinema. Moscow: Novosti, 1988.
  • Poliakov, Iu. A. “Kino–Velikii istorik.” Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (December 2003): 7-8.
  • Rimberg, John. The Motion Picture in the Soviet Union, 1918-1952: A Sociological Analysis. NY: Arno, 1973.
  • — and Paul Babitsky. The Soviet Film Industry. NY: Praeger, 1955.
  • Roberts, Graham. Forward Soviet!: History and non-fiction film in the USSR. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999.
  • Sekirinskii, Sergei. “Kinematografichnost’ istorii, istorizm kinematografa.” Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (December 2003): 3-7.
  • Shlapentokh, Dmitry and Vladimir Shlapentokh. Soviet Cinematography, 1917-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993.
  • Vlasov, M.P., ed. Istoriia otechestvennogo kinematografa: Programma kursa, Moskva: VGIK, 1997.
  • Zhdan, V., ed. Kratkaia istoriia sovetskogo kino. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1969.
  • Zorkaia, Neia. Istoriia sovetskogo kino. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2005.
  • –. Istoriia sovetskogo kino. Supplements to the newspaper Pervoe sentiabria 2, 6,10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, and 34 of 1999.
  • –. Krutitsia, vertitsia shar goluboi…: Desiat’ shedevrov sovetskogo kino. Moskva: Znanie, 1998.
  • Zorkaya, Neya. The Illustrated History of Soviet Cinema. London: Hippocrene Books, 1989.