Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, with a New PostScript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present

by Jay Leyda

Book Overview

This history of the turbulent destiny of Kino ("film" in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, Jay Leyda links Russia's pre-Revolutionary past with its Communist present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691003467
• ISBN13: 9780691003467
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An admirable sum of devotion and constancy!

Yesterday evening I received by mail a long and unexpected gift. A golden friend sent me a reproduction of this treasured book. And that 's why I just slept few hours tonight, reading here and there the invaluable and remarkable information around the development of the Russian Cinema. Jay Leda -his author- worked untiringly during three years around the Schools and Cinematographic Soviet Studies. His tour de force allowed him to explore all the impressive amount of material, never released overseas, and obviously known works in the Western World. He made a vivid and authorized portrait of the artistic trajectory of different filmmakers and their works. Kino is dedicated to any interested reader about the theme as well the specialist, it has been documented with statements of creators, critics and valuable illustrations, some of them never posted previously. It includes besides, a selected catalogue of premiered films between 1908 and 1958, with interesting details about directors, screenwriters, interpreters and scenographers. It is a must buy.