Author: Oleksandr Petrovych Dovz︠h︡enko
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Poet as Filmmaker
Author: Oleksandr Petrovych Dovz︠h︡enko
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Alexander Dovzhenko
Author: Bohdan Y. Nebesio
Publisher: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Alexander Dovzhenko
Author: George O. Liber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Along with Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko became one of the major pioneers of Soviet filmmaking. During his thirty-year career, his films (including Zvenyhora, Arsenal, Earth, and Ivan) won international acclaim and have become influential classics of the silent and early sound eras. Combining images from Ukrainian history and folklore, stark realism, visual poetry, propaganda, and gentle humor, his films celebrated nature and man's relationship to the land. From his humble beginnings in the Ukrainian peasantry, Dovzhenko developed into a volatile artist with a great belief in cinema as an art form for the people. Fearing arrest and execution, he had to come to terms with the Stalinist order and compromised his vision for his later films (Aerograd, Shchors, and Michurin). Despite his concessions, his creative work inspired the first post-Stalinist generation of filmmakers and writers to challengeprevailing Soviet and artistic orthodoxies. Based on archival research in Moscow and Kiev and interviews with Dovzhenko's colleagues and students, George O. Liber provides the first definitive account in any language of this important director's personal and professional life. Liber's biography explores the political context of Dovzhenko's filmmaking, investigates the divisions between his public and private worlds, and analyses his contradictions, illusions, misrepresentations and struggles within and against the Stalinist system.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Along with Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko became one of the major pioneers of Soviet filmmaking. During his thirty-year career, his films (including Zvenyhora, Arsenal, Earth, and Ivan) won international acclaim and have become influential classics of the silent and early sound eras. Combining images from Ukrainian history and folklore, stark realism, visual poetry, propaganda, and gentle humor, his films celebrated nature and man's relationship to the land. From his humble beginnings in the Ukrainian peasantry, Dovzhenko developed into a volatile artist with a great belief in cinema as an art form for the people. Fearing arrest and execution, he had to come to terms with the Stalinist order and compromised his vision for his later films (Aerograd, Shchors, and Michurin). Despite his concessions, his creative work inspired the first post-Stalinist generation of filmmakers and writers to challengeprevailing Soviet and artistic orthodoxies. Based on archival research in Moscow and Kiev and interviews with Dovzhenko's colleagues and students, George O. Liber provides the first definitive account in any language of this important director's personal and professional life. Liber's biography explores the political context of Dovzhenko's filmmaking, investigates the divisions between his public and private worlds, and analyses his contradictions, illusions, misrepresentations and struggles within and against the Stalinist system.
In the Service of the State
Author: Vance Kepley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Fiction Films of Alexander Dovzhenko
The Early Work of Alexander Dovzhenko and the Ukrainian Response to Soviet Modernism
Author: Vance Kepley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Early Soviet Cinema
Author: David Gillespie
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781903364048
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This text examines the aesthetics of Soviet cinema during its golden age of the 1920s, against a background of cultural ferment and the construction of a new socialist society.
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781903364048
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This text examines the aesthetics of Soviet cinema during its golden age of the 1920s, against a background of cultural ferment and the construction of a new socialist society.
The Alexander Medvedkin Reader
Author: Alexander Medvedkin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022629630X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900–89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of “total” documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet authorities preferred that laughter be confined to narrowly prescribed channels. This collection of selected writings by Medvedkin is the first of its kind and reveals how his work is a crucial link in the history of documentary film. Although he was a dedicated Communist, Medvedkin’s satirical approach and social critiques ultimately led to his suppression by the Soviet regime. State institutions held back or marginalized his work, and for many years, his films were assumed to have been lost or destroyed. These texts, many assembled for this volume by Medvedkin himself, document for the first time his considerable achievements, experiments in film and theater, and attempts to develop satire as a major Soviet film genre. Through scripts, letters, autobiographical writings, and more, we see a Medvedkin supported and admired by figures like Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, and Maxim Gorky.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022629630X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900–89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of “total” documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet authorities preferred that laughter be confined to narrowly prescribed channels. This collection of selected writings by Medvedkin is the first of its kind and reveals how his work is a crucial link in the history of documentary film. Although he was a dedicated Communist, Medvedkin’s satirical approach and social critiques ultimately led to his suppression by the Soviet regime. State institutions held back or marginalized his work, and for many years, his films were assumed to have been lost or destroyed. These texts, many assembled for this volume by Medvedkin himself, document for the first time his considerable achievements, experiments in film and theater, and attempts to develop satire as a major Soviet film genre. Through scripts, letters, autobiographical writings, and more, we see a Medvedkin supported and admired by figures like Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, and Maxim Gorky.
The Technique of Film and Video Editing
Author: Ken Dancyger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113605281X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Technique of Film & Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Analyses of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker and student editor. This book puts into context the storytelling choices an editor will have to make against a background of theory, history, and practice. This new edition has been updated to include the latest advances in digital video and nonlinear editing and explores the new trend of documentary as mainstream entertainment, using films such as "Farenheit 9/11" and "The Fog of War" as examples.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113605281X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Technique of Film & Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Analyses of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker and student editor. This book puts into context the storytelling choices an editor will have to make against a background of theory, history, and practice. This new edition has been updated to include the latest advances in digital video and nonlinear editing and explores the new trend of documentary as mainstream entertainment, using films such as "Farenheit 9/11" and "The Fog of War" as examples.