The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. 8vo. 457 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards, with gilt lettering. Dust Jacket Very Good. Minor shelf wear. B&W Photo plates throughout.
ISBN: 0674301250 9780674301252.
Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 –2017), The San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films.
She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone.
She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema.” Among her publications are “The Mystery of B. Traven” and "Eye on the World,” a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Contents: The Lumiere Cinematograph [extracts] /Maxim Gorky --
First Letter on Theatre [extracts] / Leonid Andreyev --
Theatre, Cinema, Futurism / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
The Destruction of 'Theatre' by Cinema as a Sign of the Resurrection of Theatrical Art / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
The Relationship Between Contemporary Theatre and Cinema and Art / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
Second Letter on Theatre [extract] / Leonid Andreyev --
On Cinema / Vsevolod Meyerhold --
The Tasks of the Artist in Cinema / Lev Kuleshov --
The Art of Cinema / Lev Kuleshov --
The Tasks of the State Cinema in the RSFSR / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
Art Belongs to the People. Conversation with Clara Zetkin / Vladimir Lenin --
Directive on Cinema Affairs / Vladimir Lenin --
Conversation with Lenin. I. Of all the Arts ... / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
Conversation with Lenin. II. Newsreel and Fiction Film / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
Eccentrism / Grigori Kozintsev [and others] --
Open Letter to Nemirovich-Danchenko and Stanislavsky / Alexei Voznesensky --
'Art' Cinema / Lev Kuleshov --
Cinema as the Fixing of Theatrical Action / Lev Kuleshov --
The Cinematograph and Cinema / Alexei Gan --
Art, Contemporary Life and Cinema / Lev Kuleshov --
We. A Version of a Manifesto / Dziga Vertov --
Americanism / Lev Kuleshov --
Chamber Cinema / Lev Kuleshov --
Cinema and Cinema / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
The 'Left Front' and Cinema / Alexei Gan --
The Thirteenth Experiment / Alexei Gan --
Two Paths / Alexei Gan --
The Cine-Pravda / Dziga Vertov --
Quasi-Theses / Proletkino --
The Montage of Attractions / Sergei Eisenstein --
The Cine-Eyes. A Revolution / Dziga Vertov --
Vodka, the Church and the Cinema / Lev Trotsky --
Russfilm Script Competition. Literature and Cinema [extracts] / Viktor Shklovsky --
Declaration of the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography --
The Red Clown to the Rescue! / Leonid Trauberg --
Recognition for the Cine-Eyes / Alexei Gan --
Mr West / Lev Kuleshov --
Revolutionary Ideology and cinema --
Theses / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
Resolution of Thirteenth Party Congress on Cinema / Thirteenth Party Congress on Cinema --
The Cine-Pravda: A Report to the Cine-Eyes / Dziga Vertov --
Decree on the Establishment of Sovkino / Sovnarkom of the RSFSR --
Fiction Film Drama and the Cine-Eye / Dziga Vertov --
Against the 'Theatre of Fools' --
For Cinema / Vladimir Blyum --
Our Cinema and Its Audience / Anatoli Goldobin --
Theatre or Cinema? / Zhizn iskusstva Editorial --
Cinema and Theatre / Abram Room --
Cine-Pravda and Radio-Pravda / Dziga Vertov --
The Semantics of Cinema / Viktor Shklovsky --
Cinema and the Soviet Public / Grigori Boltyansky --
The Battleship Potemkin / Adrian Piotrovsky --
A New Triumph for Soviet Cinema (The Battleship Potemkin and the 'Theatrical October') / Alexei Gvozdev --
Literature, Theatre and Cinema [extract] / Vladimir Kirshon --
The Future of Film / Béla Balázs --
Béla Forgets the Scissors / Sergei Eisenstein --
The Soviet Cinema in Danger / Alexander Dubrovsky --
The Factory of Facts / Dziga Vertov --
Where is Dziga Vertov Striding? / Viktor Shklovsky --
The Manufacture of Facts / Esfir Shub --
The Cine-Eyes and Intertitles / Viktor Shklovsky --
Cinema --
the Greatest of the Arts / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
Help! / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
Sergei Eisenstein and 'Non-Played' Film / Viktor Shklovsky --
The Temperature of Cinema / Viktor Shklovsky --
Literature and Cinema / Viktor Pertsov. The Film Factory [extracts] / Viktor Shklovsky --
Speech in Debate on 'The Paths and Policy of Sovkino' / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
On Cinema / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
Preface to Poetics of Cinema / Kirill Shutko --
Poetry and Prose in Cinema / Viktor Shklovsky --
The Cinefication of Theatre --
Some General Points / Adrian Piotrovsky --
Mistakes and Inventions / Viktor Shklovsky --
The Fixation of Fact [extract] / Osip Brik --
We Do Not Deny the Element of Mastery / Esfir Shub --
Let Us Be Maximalists! / Adrian Piotrovsky --
'Ideology' and 'Commerce' / Adrian Piotrovsky --
The Nihilists from ARK / Nikolai Yakovlev --
Speech to Film Workers / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
S.M. Eisenstein (From Potemkin to October) / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
The Eleventh Year / Dziga Vertov --
The Relationships Between Cinema and Theatre / Alexei Popov --
To the Party Conference on Cinema From a Group of Film Directors / A Group of Film Directors --
The Results of Cinema Construction in the USSR and the Tasks of Soviet Cinema / Party Cinema Conference Resolution --
Review of October / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
October Must Be Re-Edited! / Adrian Piotrovsky --
This Work Cries Out / Esfir Shub --
We Are Waiting! / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov --
Why Is October Difficult? / T. Rokotov --
For Soviet Cinema / Sergei Eisenstein --
Comrades! A Clash of Views! / The Lef Ring --
October --
The Results of the Discussion / Zhizn iskusstva Editorial --
Statement on Sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Grigori Alexandrov --
Sound Film / Vladimir Messman --
The Soviet School of Acting / Viktor Shklovsky --
Is There a Crisis in Soviet Cinema? / Adrian Piotrovsky --
Sovkino's New Course [extract] / Sovkino Workers' Conference Resolution. The Rightist Danger in Cinema / Sovetskii ekran Editorial --
An Experiment Intelligible to the Millions / Leonid Trauberg --
Beware of Music / Viktor Shklovsky --
On the Strengthening of Cinema Cadres / Party Central Committee Decree --
An Experiment Intelligible to the Millions / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov --
On FEKS / Yuri Tynyanov --
We Have No Soviet Cinema / Pavel Petrov-Bytov --
Petrov-Bytov's Platform and Soviet Cinema / Adrian Piotrovsky --
On the Principle of Sound in Film / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
Westernism in Our Cinema / Adrian Piotrovsky --
Preface to Kuleshov's Book The Art of Cinema / Vsevolod Pudovkin [and others] --
The Advent of Sound in Cinema / Esfir Shub --
The Cinefication of Theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold --
RAPP Resolution on Cinema --
Conversation on Sound Film / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
ARRK Must Be Reorganised / 'An ARK Member' --
The Legend of 'Left' Cinema / Ippolit Sokolov --
For the Reconstruction of Soviet Cinema / Na literaturnom postu Editorial --
Sound Cinema in the Service of the Cultural Revolution / Nikolai Anoshchenko --
The Script Laboratory / Viktor Shklovsky --
Film Work and the Mass Audience / Kino i zhizn Editorial --
The Radio-Eye's March / Dziga Vertov --
Speech to the First All-Union Conference on Sound Cinema / Dziga Vertov --
Sound as a Semantic Sign / Viktor Shklovsky --
The Second Sound Film Programme / Ippolit Sokolov --
Is There a Soviet Sound Cinema? / Kino i zhizn Editorial --
The Film Language of New Babylon / Viktor Shklovsky --
What Does 'Proletarian Cinema' Mean? / Proletarskoe kino Editorial --
We Are Continuing the Struggle / Proletarskoe kino Editorial --
To All Creative Workers in Soviet Cinema / Vsevolod Pudovkin, Esfir Shub [and others]. The Reorganisation of Literary and Artistic Organisations / Party Central Committee Decree --
Synopsis of a Report on the Tasks of Dramaturgy [extract] / Anatoli Lunacharsky --
The Role of Sound Cinema / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
Cinema and the Classics / Sergei Eisenstein --
untitled [extracts] / First Congress of Soviet Writers --
The Whole County is Watching Chapayev / Pravda Editorial --
Film-Makers' Letter to Stalin / Film-Makers --
The Youth of Maxim [extracts] / Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg --
The Youth of Maxim / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
More on Mayakovsky [extract] / Dziga Vertov --
Congratulations to Soviet Cinema on Its Fifteenth Anniversary / Joseph Stalin --
Speeches to the All-Union Creative Conference of Workers in Soviet Cinema [extracts] / For a Great Cinema Art --
My Illness / Dziga Vertov --
A Cinema for the Millions [extracts] / Boris Shumyatsky --
The Role of the Producer / Boris Shumyatsky --
Perfecting Our Mastery / Boris Shumyatsky --
Diary Entry / Dziga Vertov --
The Film Bezhin Meadow / Boris Shumyatsky --
Seminar at VGIK [extracts] / Yuli Raizman --
The Director and the Scriptwriter [extracts] / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
Dialogue in Film [extract] / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
The Artist's Teacher and Friend / Alexander Dovzhenko --
What Is Holding Up the Development of Soviet Cinema? / G. Ermolayev --
The Fascist Cur Eradicated / Iskusstvo kino Editorial --
My Suggestion to Soviet Cinema / Alexei Stakhanov --
Reactions to Stakhanov's Article [extracts] / Anonymous --
The Internal and the External in an Actor's Training / Vsevolod Pudovkin --
My Subject Is Patriotism / Sergei Eisenstein. Item #18-9235
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