"This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed stud ..."
""Early Cinema in Russia" chronicles one of the great lost periods in cinema history, that of Pre-Revolutionary Russia. In contrast to standard film histories, Yuri Tsivian focuses on reflected images: it features the historical film-goer and early writings on film as well as examining the physical elements of cinematic performance. "Tsivian casts a probing beam of illumination into some of the most obscure areas of film history. And the ..."
"This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed stud ..."
"Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before begining the third part. Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stalin prize, but Part Two met with the Kremlin's disfavour and was eventually banned until 1958. Using research gathered from Soviet archives, Yuri Tsivian offers an insight into Eisenstein's grand project. He reconstructs the director's "mental ..."
"In Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. Tsivian traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films, from actors, novelists, po ..."
"In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emerge ..."
"Blok was writing about one of Alexander Amfiteatrov's plays, which was 'full of
brawling and fighting'. ... M. Lotman, 'Blok i narodnaya kul'tura goroda' [Blok and
the Popular Culture of the City], in: Mir A. Bloka: Blokovskii sbornik, ... 1, 5 Jan.
1909, p. 11. Teffi, 'V stereo-foto-kine-mato-skopo-bio-fono i proch.-grafe' [At the
Stereofoto-etc. etc.-graph], Satirikon, 1908, no. ... 1, p. 27. There is a possible
literary referenc ..."
Ivan the Terrible by YuriTsivian 88 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-83871-646-2, ISBN: 1-83871-646-7
"The book attempts to follow the train of thought that connect the aesthetic construction and visual design of the film to Eisenstein's knowldege of iconography and painting, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Shakespeare and Balzac - and much ..."
Ivan the Terrible by YuriTsivian 88 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-83871-647-9, ISBN: 1-83871-647-5
"Eisenstein , Sergei , Ivan the Terrible ( includes the film transcript and
Eisenstein's scenario for Part Three ) ( London , Boston : Faber and Faber , 1989
) . Ivan the Terrible . A Screenplay by Sergei M. Eisenstein , trans . by Ivor
Montagu and ..."
Routledge Library Editions Cinema Routledge Library Editions : Cinema: Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception by YuriTsivian Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-315-85566-0, ISBN: 1-315-85566-6
"This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed stud ..."
Immaterial Bodies A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films by YuriTsivian, Barry Schneider Cd, 250 Pages, Published 2001 by Annenberg Communications Inst ISBN-13: 978-0-9674127-4-0, ISBN: 0-9674127-4-9
"By Yuri Tsivian (with Barry Schneider) From the Cine Disc Series (edited by Marsha Kinder) & distributed by The Labyrinth Project Winner of the 2001 British Academy Award for Best Interactive Project in the Learning Category. This CD-ROM by Slavic studies scholar Yuri Tsivian examines Russian cinema before 1919. It highlights the major stars and principal directors from this period, explores the unique visual style of their films, and l ..."
" Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term transmedia” with transnational,” they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages deba ..."
"... the tragic heroine contemplates her destiny Satirical views of cinema (a) M.
Mikhailov's 1910 caricature of cinema's 'impossible juxtapositions': Lev Tolstoy
and Glupyshkin (the Russian name for the French comedian, André Deed) (b)
P.W.'s ..."