TY - GEN T1 - The cinema of Yakov Protazanov T2 - Global film directors. A1 - Wilson, F. Booth LA - English PP - New Brunswick PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2024 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1444082340 AB - "Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career spanning three decades. Called "the Russian D.W. Griffith" in the 1910s for his formative role in the first movies in the last years of the Russian Empire, he fled the Civil War and maintained a successful career in Europe before making an unusual decision to return to Russia now under Soviet power. There his films continued their remarkable success with audiences undergoing a bewildering and often brutal revolutionary transformation. Rather than treating him as an indistinct, if capable craftsman, The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov argues that his films are suffused with a unique creative vision that reflects both his mindset as a traditional Russian intellectual and his experience of dislocation and migration after 1917. As he adapted his films to revolutionary culture, they intermingled different voices and reinterpreted his past work from a disavowed era. Offering fresh perspectives of Protazanov's films, the book will give readers a new appreciation of his career. The book offers a uniquely valuable vantage point from which to explore how cinema reflected a society in transformation and a seminal moment in the development of cinematic art"-- OP - 234 CN - PN1998.3.P77 W55 2024eb SN - 9781978839175 SN - 1978839170 SN - 9781978839144 SN - 1978839146 SN - 9781978839151 SN - 1978839154 KW - Protazanov, I͡Akov Aleksandrovich, : 1881-1945. KW - Protazanov, I͡Akov Aleksandrovich, : 1881-1945 KW - Motion picture producers and directors : Soviet Union : Biography. KW - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma : URSS : Biographies. KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism. KW - ART / Film & Video. KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Soviet Union KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General KW - Biographies ER -