University of Pittsburgh
Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

5. Central Asian Cinema

  • Abdullaev, Bairam. Klassika i ekran (na materiale kinoiskusstva respublik Srednei Azii). Ashkhabad: Ylym, 1983.
  • —. Vstrechnoe dvizhenie. Ashkhabad: Ylym, 1986.
  • Abikeeva, Gul’nara. Kino Tsentral’noi Azii. Almaty: IREX, 2001.
  • —. Natsiostroitel’stvo v Kazakhstane i drugigkh stranakh Tsentral’noi Azii: I kak etot protsess otrazhaetsia v .
  • —. Novoe Kazhakhskoe kino. Almaty: Mezhdunarodnyi kinofestival’ “Evraziia,” 1998.
  • Abikeeva, Gul’nara and Galiia Tushkina, eds. Catalogue of Participants of the 1st Kazakhstan Film Festival “Shaken Stars”. Almaty: Prodiuserskii tsentr “Zvezdy Shakena,” 2003.
  • Abikeyeva, Gulnara. The Heart of the World: Films from Central Asia. Trans. Dana Zhamanbalina-Mazur. Ed. Jonathan Mazur. Almaty: Tengizchevroil, Kazakhfilm, SKIF, Kino Firm, 2003.
  • —. “Women in the Kazakh Film Industry.” Aus dem Herzen der Welt: Das Kino der zentralasiatischen Republiken–Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan. Viennale 2001. Vienna: Österrichischen Filmmuseum, 2001. 5, 52-53.
  • Abul-Kasymova, Khanzhara. Kino i khudozhestvennaia kul’tura Uzbekistana. Tashkent: Izdatel’stvo “Fan,” Akademiia Nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, 1991.
  • —. Nabi Ganiev. Tashkent: Ghafur Ghulam, 1968.
  • —. Rozhdenie uzbekskogo kino. Tashkent: Akademiia Nauk Uzbekistana, 1965.
  • Abul-Kasymova, Iura Teshebaev, and Makhsura Mirzamukhamedova. Kino Uzbekistana. Tashkent: Ghafur Ghulam, 1985.
  • Achrorow, Ato. Tadshik Film: Einst und Jetzt. Trans. Eva Hahm. Austellungskatalog des Staatlichen Filmarchivs der DDR und des Filmmuseums der DDR gemeinsam mit “Tadshikfilm.” Potsdam: Staatlichen Filmarchiv der DDR, 1988.
  • Agaeva, G. G. Turkmenskoe dokumental’noe kino. Ashkhabad: Znanie, 1988.
  • Akhrorov, Ato. Tadzhikskoe kino. Dushanbe: Donish, 1971.
  • Akhrorov, Ato, ed. Tadzhikskii ekran. Dushanbe: Irfon, 1980.
  • Akhrorov, A. and S. Azizova. Kino Tadzhikistana. Moskva: Vsesoiuznoe ob”edinenie “Soiuzinformkino,” Goskino SSSR, 1982.
  • Aus dem Herzen der Welt: Das Kino der zentralasiatischen Republiken–Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan. Viennale 2001. Vienna: Österrichischen Filmmuseum, 2001.
  • Bazarov, Gennadii. Prikosnovenie k lichnosti: Strikhi k portretu i obrazu Chingiza Aitmatova Frunze: “Kyrgyzstan,” 1988.
  • Beumers, Birgit. “Returning to the Roots: Central Asian Films in Rotterdam.” KinoKultura 20 (April 2008).
  • Beumers, Birgit and Michael Rouland. “Eurasia 2006: An International Festival?” KinoKultura 15 (January 2007).
  • Ciesol, Forrest. “Kazakhstan Wave.” Sight & Sound 59.1 (Winter 1989/1990): 56-58.
  • Dallet, Sylvie. “Historical Time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian, and Kirghiz Cinema.” The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Ed. Anna Lawton. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • Dömez-Colin, Gönül. Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-makers from the Middle East and Central Asia. London: Intellect Books, 2006
  • —. “Kazakh New Wave: Post Perestroika, Post Soviet Union.” Blimp: Film Magazine 30 (Winter 1994): 12-15.
  • —. “Turkmen and Uzbek Filmmaking.” Aus dem Herzen der Welt: Das Kino der zentralasiatischen Republiken–Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan. Viennale 2001. Vienna: Österrichischen Filmmuseum, 2001. 60-65.
  • —. Women, Islam and Cinema. London: Redaktion, 2004.
  • Drieu, Cloé: “Alisher Navoi: prix Staline 1948. Cinéma et politique des nationalités.” Théorème 8 (2005): 119-127.
  • —. “A Haunting Ode to the Steppee: Working with Darezhan Omirbaev.” In Aus dem Herzen der Welt: Das kino der zentralischen Republiken–Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Uzbekistan. Viennale 2001. Vienna: Österrichischen Filmmuseum, 2001. 46-47
  • —. “L’Islam oublié.” In Créations artistiques contemporaines en pays d’Islam”. Ed. Jocelyne Dakhlia. Paris: Editons Kime, 2006. 365-381.
  • —. “Like a Goodbye to an Entire World.” In Aus dem Herzen der Welt: Das kino der zentralischen Republiken–Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Uzbekistan. Viennale 2001. Vienna: Österrichischen Filmmuseum, 2001. 47-48
  • Drieu, Cloé and Leila Hamadache. “Brève histoire du cinéma d’Asie centrale et entretiens.” Missives. Paris, 2001. 22-60.
  • Drieu, Cloé and Jean Radvanyi. “L’Héritage paradoxal du cinéma sovietique en Asie centrale.” CEMOTI 39-40 (2005): 159-166.
  • Graham, Seth. “Iusup Razykov and Contemporary Uzbek Cinema.” KinoKultura 11 (January 2006).
  • Honarpisheh, Farbod. “The Oriental ‘Other’ in Soviet Cinema, 1929-34.” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 13.2 (2004): 185-201.
  • Ianov-Ianovskaia, N. Muzyka uzbekskogo kino. Tashkent: Fan, 1969.
  • Iarmatov, Kamil’. Vozvrashchenie. Tashkent: Ghufar Ghulam, 1987.
  • Jones, Kent. “Lone Wolves at the Door of History.” Film Comment 39.3 (May-June 2003): 54-57. Also available online at http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/5-6-2003/centralasia.htm
  • Jousse, Theirry. “Blowing Up the Old Order in Kazakhstan.” Catalogue for the 42nd International Film Festival, 1999. 27, 113.
  • —. “La Nouvelle Vague Kazakh et après.” Supplément Cahiers du cinéma. Festival d’automne à Paris. Paris, 1998. 12-13.
  • Kaiumov, Malik. Zhizn’ moia — Kinematograf. Tashkent: Ghafur Ghulam, 1982.
  • Kiiamova, L. and Iu. Kaplynov, comp. Tadzhikfil’m pokazyvaet. Vystavka 60 let sovetskogo kino. Dushanbe: n.p., n.d.
  • Laurent, Natacha. L’oeil du Kremlin: Cinéma et censure en URSS sous Staline (1928-1953). Paris: Edition Privat, 2000.
  • Laurent, Natcha, ed. Le cinéma “stalien”: questions d’histoire. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail/Cinématheque de Toulouse, 2003.
  • Lemkin, Mikhail. “Novye fil’my iz Kazakhstana i Kirgizii.” Novoe russkoe slovo. 26 July 1999: 17.
  • Melkumov, M. and Kamil’ Iarmatov. Dalekie blizkie gody: stsenarii. Tashkent: Ghufar Ghulam, 1977.
  • Micciché, Lino. “The Cinema of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian Soviet Republics.” The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Ed. Anna Lawton. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • —. Introduction. Il cinema delle republiche asiatiche sovietiche. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 1986.
  • Möller, Olaf. “Wind From the Steppes: A Brief History of Central Asian Cinema During the Soviet Era.” Film Comment online at http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/online/centralasiaom.htm
  • Nogerbek, Bauyrzhan. “Demythologizing and Reconstructing National Space in the Kazakh ‘New Wave’.” Trans. Vladimir Padunov. KinoKultura 3 (January 2004).
  • —. “The Eurasia-2005 Film Festival: Ambitions and Realities.” Trans. Vladimir Padunov. KinoKultura 12 (April 2006).
  • —. Kino Kazakhstana. Almaty: Natsional’nyi prodiuserskii tsentr, 1998.
  • Padunov, Vladimir. “Stars Above Almaty: Kazakh Cinema Between 1998 and 2003.” KinoKultura 3 (January 2004).
  • Payne, Matthew J. “Victor Turin’s <i<turksib< i=””>(1929) and Soviet Orientalism.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 21.1 (2001): 37-62.
  • Pozner, Valérie. “Le bonimenteur ‘rouge’: Retour sur la question de l’oralité à propos du cas soviétique.” CiNéMAS 14.2-3 (2005): 147.
  • Pruner, Liudmila Zebriner. “The New Wave in Kazakh Cinema.” Slavic Review 51.4 (Winter 1992): 791-801.
  • Radvanyi, Jean, ed. Le cinéma d’Asie centrale sovietique. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1991.
  • Rakhimov, Sadullo. Nuri parda / Luch ekrana (o Tadzhiksom kino). Dushanbe: Glavnaia nauchnaia redaktsiia Tadzhikskoi Natsional’noi Entsiklopedii, 2004.
  • Rouland, Michael. “A Tour Through Kinostan.” KinoKultura 19 (January 2008).
  • Sabokhi, Khazrat. Grani ekranizatsii (na materiale tadzhikskikh fil’mov 60-70-kh gg.). Dushanbe: Donish, 1987.
  • Sarkisova, Elena. “Edges of Empire: Representations of Borderland Identities in Early Soviet Cinema.” Ab Imperio 1 (2000): 167-186.
  • Savitskii, G. Tashkent. Voina. Kino. Tashkent: Esh Gvardiia, 1983.
  • Sekimow, Askarbek and Erkin Borbijew. “Die Filmkunst Kirgisiens.” Kirgisfilm: Gestern und Heute. Ausstellungskatalog. Berlin: Zentrales Haus der Deutsch-Sowjetischen Freundschaft Berlin, 1984.
  • Smailova, Inna. “Interview with Abai Kulbai: The Keeper of Eternal Values in Cinema.” Trans. Birgit Beumers. KinoKultura 20 (April 2008).
  • –. “Three Generations of Kazakh Cinematographers: Action–Reaction–Change of Reality.” Trans. Birgit Beumers. KinoKultura 19 (January 2008).
  • Smailova, Tamara, compiler. Kino Kazakhstana: Kinospravochnik. Almaty: Zhibek Zholy, 2000.
  • Smith, Michael G. “Cinema of the ‘Soviet East’: National Fact and Revolutionary Fiction in Early Azerbaijani Film.” Slavic Review 56.4 (1997): 645-678.
  • Tasbulatova, Dilyara. “The ‘Woman of the East’: The Portrayal of Women in the Kazakh Cinema.” Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era. Ed Lynne Attwood. London: Pandora, 1993.
  • Teshebaev, Dzhura. Kamil’ Iarmatov. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1964.
  • Vronskaya, Jeanne. “The Awakening of the Steppes.” Young Soviet Film Makers. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1972: 91-101.
  • Waller, Gregory A. “National Cinema and Film Culture in Kazakhstan.” Asian Cinema 8.1 (Spring 1996): 39-49.
  • Zvonkine, Eugénie. “‘On a Motorbike or on a Horse?’: The IV International Film Festival Eurasia 2007.” Trans Birgit Beumers. KinoKultura 19 (January 2008).