The cinema of Yakov Protazanov /

"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...

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Autore principale: Wilson, F. Booth (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Serie:Global film directors.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530971
Sommario:
  • Introduction: A proto- and protean filmmaker
  • A mobile career
  • The politics of literary adaptation
  • Revolutionary(-era) traditionalism
  • Abroad at home
  • Making comedy serious
  • The didactic voice from Tolstoy to Lenin.