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Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

4. Russo-Soviet Cinema

4.2. Russo-Soviet Cinema: Pre-Revolutionary
  • Batalin, Viktor. Kinokhronika v Rossii, 1896-1916gg.: Opis’ kinos”emok, khraniashchikhsia v RGAKFD. Moskva: Olma-Press, 2002.
  • Bratoliubov, S. Na zare sovetskoi kinematografii. Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1976.
  • Cavendish, Phillip. “The Hand that Turns the Cradle: Camera Operators and the Poetics of the Camera in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Cinema.” Slavonic and East European Review 82.2 (April 2004): 201-245, 4 pages of plates.
  • Chaikovskii, Vsevolod. Mladenscheskie gody russkogo kino. Moskva: Tea-kinopechat’, 1928.
  • Cherchi Usai, Paolo, et al., eds. Silent Witnesses. London: BFI and Edizioni Biblioteca dell’Immagine, 1989.
  • Chernyshev, Andrei. Russkaia dooktiabr’skaia kinozhurnalistika. Moskva: Izd. Moskovskogo Universiteta, 1987.
  • Le cinéma russe avant la révolution. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989.
  • Deriabin, Aleksandr, ed. “Katalogi prosvetitel’nykh fil’mov AO ‘A. Khanzhonkov i Ko.'” Kinovedcheskie zapiski 64 (2003): 190-239.
  • Doane, Mary Ann. “Melodrama, Temporality, Recognition: American and Russian Silent Cinema.” East-West: Film Journal 4.2 (June 1990): 69-89.
  • Gaines, Jane. “Revolutionary Theory/Prerevolutionary Melodrama.” Discourse 17.3 (Spring 1995): 101-118.
  • Ginsburg, S. Kinematografiia dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1963. (rpt: Moskva: Agraf, 2007)
  • Ivanova, V., V. Myl’nikova, S. Skovorodnikova, Iu. Tsivian, and R. Iangirov, compilers. Velikii Kinemo: Katalog sokhranivshikhsia igrovykh fil’mov Rossii, 1908-1919. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2002.
  • Khanzhonkov, Aleksandr. Pervye gody russkoi kinomatografii Moskva–Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1937.
  • Khanzhonkova, V.D., comp. Russkoe kino 1908-1918. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1969.
  • Listov, Viktor and Elena Khokhlova, compl. Istoriia otechestvennogo kino: dokumenty, memuary, pis’ma. vyp. 1. Moskva: Materik, 1996.
  • McReynolds, Louise. “Home Was Never Where the Heart Was: Domestic Dystopias in Russia’s Silent Movie Melodramas.” Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Ed. Louise McReynolds and Joan Neiberger. Durham: Duke UP, 2002: 127-151.
  • Mikhailov, Vladimir. Rasskazy o kinematografe staroi Moskvy. Moskva: Materik, 1998.
  • Roshal’, Lev. Nachalo vsekh nachal: Fakt na ekrane i kinomysl’ “Serebrianogo veka”. Moskva: Materik, 2002.
  • Russkoe kino, 1908-1918. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1969.
  • Sobolev, R. Liudi i fil’my russkogo dorevoliutsionnogo kino. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1961.
  • Taylor, Richard and Ian Christie, eds. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.
  • Tsivian, Yuri. Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception. Tr. Alan Bodger. Ed. Richard Taylor. London: Routeldge, 1994.
  • –. “Early Russian Cinema: Some Observations.” Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie. London: Routledge, 1991.
  • –. “Early Russian Cinema and its Public.” Trans. Alan Bodger. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 11.2 (1991): 105-120.
  • –. Istoricheskaia retseptsiia kino: kinematograf v Rossii, 1896-1930. Riga: Zinatie, 1991.
  • –. “Pre-Revolutionary Russia.” The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.
  • — . “Russia, 1913: Cinema in the Cultural Landscape.” Silent Film. Ed. Richard Abel. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1996.
  • Volotskii, M., ed. Migaiushchii sinema: rannie gody russkoi kinomatografii. Vospominaniia, dokumenty, stat’i. Moskva: “Rodina” i “Titul,” 1995.
  • Youngblood, Denise J. The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918. Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 1999.
  • Zaitseva, L. Kinoiazyk: vozvrashchenie k istokam. Moskva: VGIK, 1997.
  • –. Rozhdenie rossiiskogo kino. Moskva: VGIK, 1999.
  • Zorkaia, Neia, et al., eds. Ekrannye iskusstva i literatura: nemoe kino. Moskva: Nauka, 1991.