Search with Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue

1. Go to UTL LibrarySearch Advanced Search
2. Enter any of the Subject Heading found below exactly as it appears in the Search Box 
3. Choose Subject from the Search Filters drop-down menu on the left
4. Press Enter or click on the Magnifying Glass icon

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Subject Headings

 Individuals (search procedure same as above). Format last name, first name

• Eisenstein, Sergei
• Pudovkin Vsevolod Illarionovich
• Kuleshov, L. V.
• Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Petrovych
• Vertov, Dziga
• motion picture producers and directors soviet union
• women motion picture producers and directors russia
• Motion picture actors and actresses Soviet Union

Interdisciplinary databases

• Google Scholar (incl. substantial film content)
• ProQuest (incl. substantial film content)
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE

Film-specific databases

• The American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1975, with full or short records for films from 1976 to present. Use the AFI Catalog to find detailed production information about specific films (incl. release dates and other production-related information), as well as citations to contemporaneous reviews from newspapers (e.g., New York Times); trade & industry publications (Variety); popular magazines (Motion Picture Herald, Photoplay); and review publications (Monthly Film Bulletin), among others.
  Note: There are no direct links to online content from the AFI Catlog. See How to Find Journal Articles below, for instructions on how to use a citation to find a journal article.
• Film Index International (British Film Institute). Coverage: 1900 - current. The directors selected for inclusion are a) those who have made a fiction film shown theatrically that is over 50 minutes in duration, released between 1928 and 1965, and b) those who have made a fiction film over 60 minutes in duration, post-1965.
  Note: There are no direct links to online content from Film Index International. See How to Find Journal Articles below, for instructions on how to use a citation to find a journal article.
• International Index to Film Periodicals (1972+) Search by keyword, separating each word or phrase by AND
• Film & Television Literature Index (1913-current)
• Film Literature Index (1976-2001).

Journals

Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema

KinoKultura includes articles, film reviews, festival reports, interviews with directors, as well as Special Issues on:

• Central Asia (2004)
• Poland (2005)
• Slovakia (2005)
• Czech Rep. (2006)
• Bulgaria (2006)
• Romania (2007)
• Hungary (2008)
• Serbia (2009)
• Ukraine (2009)
• Estonia (2010)
• Croatia (2011)
• Georgia (2011)
• Latvia (2012)
• Bosnia (2012)
• Albania (2016)
• Armenia (2016)
• Azerbaijan(2018)  
• forthcoming: Sakha

Bibliographies are curated lists of resources on particular topics. You will need to look up the resources in UTL Catalogue, the Internet, or contact the Cinema Studies Librarian for help. 

• Dziga Vertov
• Film Theory Before 1945 esp. sections on Soviet Film Theory and Russian Formalism and the Left Front of the Arts.
• Russian Cinema See sections on: Pre-revolutionary Cinema; Early Soviet Cinema, 1920s; Russian and Soviet Film Theory; 
• Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography (Russo-Soviet cinema, 1896 to 2009). (U. of Pittsburgh, 2009)
• East European Cinema: A Bibliography ... (UC Berkeley) Incl. bibliographies on Soviet Union/Russian cinema and on individual Soviet/Russian directors.
• Sergei Eisenstein
• Andrei Tarkovsky

Books

• The Russian cinema reader. Edited by Rimgaila Salys. 2 vols. 2013. INNIS
• Russian Film Symposium (1999+) Incl. online publication: Springtime for Soviet cinema: Re/Viewing the 1960s. Edited by Alexander Prokhorov. (2001); bibliography; filmographies; other related resources.
• Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash. Andrew Horton, ed. EBOOK. Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American, and Canadian scholars and film commentators. It is the first in-depth examination of an important genre within the Soviet film tradition.
• Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost. EBOOK. Michael Brashinsky, Andrew Horton, eds. This collection brings together twenty-three essays by some of Russia's most astute commentators on film and culture, written during the 1980s and published here in English for the first time. Included are reviews of films such as Little Vera and Taxi Blues,....
• The thaw: Soviet society and culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Edited by Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd. (2013) EBOOK
• Sylvie Dallet, Historical time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Kirghiz cinema IN: The Red screen: politics, society, art in Soviet cinema. EBOOK
• Art, society, revolution : Russia, 1917-1921. Print. ROBA.
• Imagining mass dictatorships: the individual and the masses in literature and cinema. EBOOK
• David Gillespie and Natal'ia Zhuravkina, "National identity and the past in recent Russian cinema", in: Mette Bryld & Erik Kulavig, eds, Soviet civilization between past and present. ROBA

Dissertations

• HURINA, ANNA (2015). Representations of Urban Spaces and Their Transformations in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and 1960s. Doctoral thesis, Durham University
• First, J. J. (2008). Scenes of belonging: Cinema and the nationality question in Soviet Ukraine during the long 1960s
• Kapterev, S. (2005). Post-stalinist cinema and the Russian intelligentsia, 1953--1960: Strategies of self-representation, de-stalinization, and the national cultural tradition
• Ukrainian response to USSR/Russia
  • Kepley, Vance (1976). The early work of Alexander Dovzhenko and the Ukrainian response to Soviet modernism. PhD Thesis. (48.36Mb PDF)
  • Uzwyshyn, R. J. (2000). Between Ukrainian cinema and modernism: Alexander dovzhenko's silent trilogy
  • Spolsky, M. (2010). Cinema translation in post-communist ukraine: Reclaiming the ukrainian identity

Reference

• The Cambridge companion to modern Russian culture. Print only - ROBA
• Soviet cinema. Film periodicals, 1918-1942. Part 2, Newspapers. on microfilm PN1993 .S58mfm "The collection includes Soviet film magazines from the 1920s and 1930s..."

• Pontieri, Laura. Soviet animation and the Thaw of the 1960s : not only for children. 2012. INNIS.
• Anatoliy Klots . Depicting the Trickster: Soviet Animation and Russian Folktales
• Natalie Kononenko. "The Politics of Innocence: Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation on Folklore Topics." Journal of American Folklore 124.494 (2011): 272-294.