The Alexander Medvedkin Reader

Ajouter à ma liste

de Alexander Medvedkin

Type: Filmmakers' writings
Sujet: Director > Alexander Medvedkin
Mots Clés: Alexander Medvedkin, USSR, Soviet cinema, documentary
Année d'édition: 2016
Editeur: University of Chicago Press
Collection: Cinema and Modernity
Langue: anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 360 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-226-29627-2

Appréciation

(0 vote)

Moyenne des votes :

0	vote	= On peut s'en passer
0	vote	= Bon livre
0	vote	= Excellent livre
0	vote	= Unique / une référence

Votre vote : -

Signaler des informations incorrectes ou incomplètes

Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

Revue de Presse:
“This is a long-awaited book on the work and life of a major figure in Soviet film history. Touchingly, The Alexander Medvedkin Reader also includes evidence about its own making: correspondence between Medvedkin and Leyda. In this sense, the book is doubly valuable as a biography and as a cultural artifact.”
Yuri Tsivian, author of Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception

Voir le site internet de l'éditeur University of Chicago Press

Voir la filmographie complète de Alexander Medvedkin sur le site IMDB ...

> Sur un thème proche :