ABSTRACT

The Film Factory provides a comprehensive documentary history of Russian and Soviet cinema. It provokes a major reassessment of conventional Western understanding of Soviet cinema. Based on extensive research and in original translation, the documents selected illustrate both the aesthetic and political development of Russian and Soviet cinema, from its beginnings as a fairground novelty in 1896 to its emergence as a mass medium of entertainment and propaganda on the eve of World War II.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

chapter |1 pages

Translator's Note

chapter 1896|34 pages

1921: Introduction

part 1922|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 17|1 pages

Lev Kuleshov: 'Art' Cinema

chapter 19|1 pages

Alexei Gan: The Cinematograph and Cinema

chapter 21|3 pages

Dziga Vertov: We. A Version of a Manifesto

chapter 22|2 pages

Lev Kuleshov: Americanism

chapter 23|1 pages

Lev Kuleshov: Chamber Cinema

chapter 24|3 pages

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Cinema and Cinema

chapter 26|3 pages

Alexei Gan: The Thirteenth Experiment

part 1923|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 27|1 pages

Alexei Gan: Two Paths

chapter 28|3 pages

Dziga Vertov: The Cine-Pravda

chapter 31|5 pages

Dziga Vertov: The Cine-Eyes. A Revolution

chapter 33|1 pages

Russfilm Script Competition

part 1924|2 pages

Introduction

part 1925|3 pages

Introduction

part 1926|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 51|1 pages

Adrian Piotrovsky: The Battleship Potemkin

chapter 54|1 pages

Bela Balazs: The Future of Film

chapter 57|1 pages

Dziga Vertov: The Factory of Facts

chapter 59|1 pages

Esfir Shub: The Manufacture of Facts

part 1927|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 62|1 pages

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Help!

chapter 65|2 pages

Viktor Pertsov: Literature and Cinema

chapter 68|2 pages

Vladimir Mayakovsky: On Cinema

chapter 72|4 pages

Viktor Shklovsky: Mistakes and Inventions

chapter 73|1 pages

Osip Brik: The Fixation of Fact (Extract)

chapter 75|1 pages

Adrian Piotrovsky: Let Us Be Maximalists!

part 1928|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 77|3 pages

Nikolai Yakovlev: The Nihilists from ARK

chapter 80|4 pages

Dziga Vertov: The Eleventh Year

chapter 84|1 pages

Anatoli Lunacharsky: Review of October

chapter 86|1 pages

Esfir Shub: This Work Cries Out

chapter 88|1 pages

T. Rokotov: Why Is October Difficult?

chapter 89|5 pages

Sergei Eisenstein: For Soviet Cinema

chapter 90|7 pages

The Lef Ring: Comrades! A Clash of Views!

chapter 93|2 pages

Vladimir Messman: Sound Film

part 1929|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 99|2 pages

Viktor Shklovsky: Beware of Music

chapter 102|2 pages

Yuri Tynyanov: On FEKS

chapter 103|3 pages

Pavel Petrov-Bytov: We Have No Soviet Cinema

chapter 106|3 pages

Adrian Piotrovsky: Westernism in Our Cinema

chapter 108|4 pages

Esfir Shub: The Advent of Sound in Cinema

chapter 110|5 pages

RAPP Resolution on Cinema

part 1930|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 112|1 pages

'An ARK Member': ARRK Must Be Reorganised

chapter 113|3 pages

Ippolit Sokolov: The Legend of 'Left' Cinema

chapter 116|3 pages

Viktor Shklovsky: The Script Laboratory

chapter 118|2 pages

Dziga Vertov: The Radio-Eye's March

chapter 120|3 pages

Viktor Shklovsky: Sound as a Semantic Sign

chapter 1931|30 pages

4: Introduction

part 1935|3 pages

Introduction