Introduction / Birgit Beumers -- Part I. Structures of production, formation and exhibition. The film palaces of Nevsky prospect : a history of St. Petersburg's cinemas, 1900-1910 / Anna Kovalova -- (V)GIK and the history of film education in the Soviet Union, 1920s-1930s / Masha Salazkina -- Lenfilm : the birth and death of an institutional aesthetic / Robert Bird -- The adventures of the Kulturfilm in Soviet Russia / Oksana Sarkisova -- Soiuzdetfilm : the birth of Soviet children's film and the child actor / Jeremy Hicks -- Part II. For the state or for the audience? : auteurism, genre, and global markets. The Stalinist musical : socialist realism and revolutionary romanticism / Richard Taylor -- Soviet film comedy of the 1950s and 1960s : innovation and restoration / Seth Graham -- Auteur cinema during the thaw and stagnation / Eugénie Zvonkine -- The Blokbaster : how Russian cinema learned to love Hollywood / Dawn Seckler and Stephen M. Norris -- The global and the national in post-Soviet Russian cinema (2004-2012) / Maria Bezenkova and Xenia Leontyeva -- Part III. Sound, image, text. The literary scenario and the Soviet screenwriting tradition / Maria Belodubrovskaya -- Ideology, technology, aesthetics : early experiments in Soviet color film, 1931-1945 / Phil Cavendish -- Learning to speak Soviet : Soviet cinema and the coming of sound / Lilya Kaganovsky -- Cinema and the art of being : towards a history of early Soviet set design / Emma Widdis -- Stars on screen and red carpet / Djurdja Bartlett -- Revenge of the cameramen : Soviet cinematographers in the director's chair / Peter Rollberg -- Part IV. Time and space, history and place. Soldiers, sailors, and commissars : the revolutionary hero in Soviet cinema of the 1930s / Denise J. Youngblood -- Defending the motherland : the Soviet and Russian war film / Stephen M. Norris -- Shooting location : Riga / Kevin M.F. Platt -- Capital images : Moscow on screen / Birgit Beumers -- Part V. Directors' portraits. Boris Barnet : "this doubly accursed cinema" / Julian Graffy -- Iulii Raizman : private lives and intimacy under Communism / Jamie Miller -- The man who made them laugh : Leonid Gaidai, the king of Soviet comedy / Elena Prokhorova -- Aleksei Gherman : the last Soviet auteur / Anthony Anemone -- Knowledge (imperfective) : Andrei Zviagintsev and contemporary cinema / Nancy Condee -- Appendix : chronology of events in Russian cinema and history.
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