The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: A Proto- and Protean Filmmaker
1          A Mobile Career                      
2          The Politics of Literary Adaptation               
3          Revolutionary(-era) Traditionalism   
4          Abroad at Home                      
5          Making Comedy Serious       
6          The Didactic Voice from Tolstoy to Lenin                           
Conclusion
Selected Filmography
Notes
Bibliography  
Index

About the author

F. BOOTH WILSON is a lecturer in the Department of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on film history, theory, and aesthetics in a variety of scholarly journals.

Product details

• Authors: F Booth Wilson, F. Booth Wilson
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781978839151
• ISBN: 978-1-978839-15-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Global Film Directors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Russia, 20th Century, ART / Digital, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Electronic, holographic & video art, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Digital, video and new media arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism, ART / Russian & Soviet