Soviet Cinema - Montage, Constructivism, Theory - National Cinemas

Readings

David Bordwell, “The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film,” Cinema Journal 11, 2 (Spring 1972): 9-17. ONLINE

Readings (not included in FH and CR)

Vance Kepley, Jr., “The Origins of Soviet Cinema: A Study in Industry Development” (1985), rpt. in Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema, ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 60-79. Ebook. Also at: Innis, Robarts, VIC/Pratt.
Document / Lev Kuleshov, excerpt from Art of the Cinema (1929), rpt. in Kuleshov on Film, ed. Ronald Levaco (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 41-55. Innis, Robarts, St. Mike's, Gerstein, et al.
Document / Vsevolod Pudovkin, excerpt from Film Technique (1926), rpt. in Film Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, ed. Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 83-89. Robarts, VIC/Pratt. Also available online: Film Technique and Film Acting: The Cinema Wrtings of V. I. Pudovkin. pp. 38-50. (Internet Archive).
Document / Sergei Eisenstein, “Beyond the Shot” and “The Dramaturgy of Film Form” (1929), rpt. in S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Works, Vol. I, Writings, 1922-34, ed. Richard Taylor (London: British Film Institute, 1988), pp. 138-150; 161-180. Innis, VIC/Pratt; Robarts. 2010 ed. at: Innis, Robarts, SMC.

Selected bibliography of books available at UTLibrary

Unless noted otherwise, all items immediately below are ebooks. For additional material, both print and online, and covering all periods of Soviet & Russian cinema, see Finding Books (at right).

Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin.
Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the World.
Stalinist cinema and the production of history: museum of the revolution.
Early cinema in Russia and its cultural reception.
The politics of the Soviet cinema, 1917-1929.
Visions of a new land: Soviet film from the Revolution to the Second World War.
How the Soviet man was unmade: cultural fantasy and male subjectivity under Stalin.
Russian avant-garde and radical modernism: an introductory reader. Robarts.
Silent witnesses: Russian films, 1908-1919. Innis, Robarts, St. Mike's, VIC/Pratt.

Reference

Dictionaries, directories

Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet cinema Ebook.
Directory of World Cinema: Russia Ebook.

Articles

Mayne, Judith. "Soviet Film Montage and the Woman Question.", Camera Obscura 1989 Volume 7, Number 1 19: 24-53.
Bordwell. David. "The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film." Cinema Journal , Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1972), pp. 9-17.

Journals