Download e-book for kindle: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema by Peter Rollberg

movie fanatics around the world are acquainted with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. those administrators' certain achievements have been embedded in a strong technique that started lower than Russia's final tsar and underwent numerous sessions of blossoming: the bourgeois cinema within the 1910s, the progressive avant-garde within the Nineteen Twenties, the Thaw within the Nineteen Fifties, and the awakening of nationwide cinemas within the Sixties and Seventies. The historic Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema is the 1st reference paintings of its sort within the English language committed fullyyt to the cinema of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet interval, together with either the cinematic highlights and the mainstream. The cinemas of the previous Soviet republics, together with Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Latvia, also are represented with their so much influential artists. via a chronology, an advent essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on filmmakers, performers, cinematographers, composers, manufacturers, studios, genres, and impressive movies, this reference paintings covers the heritage of Russian and Soviet filmmaking from 1896 to 2007.