Forward Soviet! : history and non-fiction film in the USSR
This is an account of Soviet documentary output during the years between the "Great October Socialist Revolution" and the "Great Patriotic War". Graeme Roberts re-views the examples of Soviet, and world, non-fiction cinema, and uncovers many intriguing films.
History
256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781860642821, 1860642829
1015498083
Russian and Soviet unplayed film, 1898-1922; Vertov and the cine-eye; Esfir Shub and the great way forward; beyond the cine-eye; the impact of sound and "documentalism"; from realism to "realpolitik"; the not so strange death of Soviet documentary.