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  4. Film Studies: National Cinemas
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Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
  • Introduction
  • Streaming services
  • Afghanistan
  • Africa (General)
    • Africa, Northern
    • Africa, French speaking
    • Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Benelux
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Caribbean area
  • Chile
  • Chinese cinema
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Czechia (Czech Republic)
  • France
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong cinema
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indigenous films
  • Irish cinema
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
    • Egypt
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Turkey
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Nordic cinema
    • Denmark
    • Finland
    • Iceland
    • Norway
    • Sweden
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
    • Films by Director
    • Documentaries
    • Films by Title
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia & the Soviet Union
  • Slovakia
  • South Africa
  • South America
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • United States
    • Puerto Rico
  • Vietnam
  • Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslav Republics
  • Transnational & diasporic cinema
  • Journals & magazines about film

Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoDigitalia film library. Russian cinema
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    At this time, the Russian collection in Digitalia has approximately 30 film titles.
  • Resource logoRussian cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Birgit Beumers
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    While Soviet and Russian cinema was rather understudied until the collapse of the USSR, since the early 1990s there has been a rise in publications and scholarship on the topic, reflecting an increase in the popularity of film and cultural studies in general.
  • The Soviet cinema, film, and photography: a selected annotated bibliography by Louis Harris Cohen, comp.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Z 5784 .M9 C64 1976
  • Sto knig o kino by ︠I︡U.A. Kuzne︠t︡sov
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Z 5784 .M9 K89 1995

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for a national or regional cinema? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

Introduction to Russian cinema

A Lumière cameraman filmed the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896; and by 1903 permanent cinemas had opened in Moscow and St Petersburg. The first Russian-made film is generally agreed to be Sten’ka Razin, directed by Vladimir Romashkov in 1908. In this period, cinema was heavily influenced by the European Film d’Art (see France, film in), with Russian film company A. Khanzhonkov & Co producing popular adaptations of Russian literary classics and tableaux of famous Russian paintings. Director Yevgeni Bauer was critically acclaimed for his sophisticated use of literary symbolism and elaborate set design, and Vera Kholodnaya and Ivan Mozzhukhin were successful film stars. The work of animator Wladyslaw Starewicz is considered an important point of origin for a distinctive Eastern European animation tradition. Restrictions on imports during World War I brought about a golden age, with melodrama proving the most popular genre. The films of director Pyotr Chardynin, including Molchi, grust… molchi/Be Silent, Sorrow… Be Silent (1918), were among the star-driven box-office successes of the period. Revolution in 1917 led to the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), constituted from a diverse range of regions, principalities, and individual nation states. Film studios were built in Ukraine, the Baltic States, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (see Soviet republics, film in the); but for the next seventy years and more, Russian cinema was officially eclipsed by that of the wider Soviet Union (see socialist realism; Soviet avant garde; USSR, film in the).  ...

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Russia, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 May. 2021

In the Library's Collection

There are several subject headings you can use to find resources in the online catalog. The call number ranges are also included. Please note: there are other sections of materials elsewhere.

  • motion pictures russia
    The call number range PN 1993.5 .R9 is located on Baker Stacks 4.
  • motion pictures russia federation
  • motion picture producers and directors russia
  • motion pictures soviet union
    The call number range PN 1993.5 .R9 is located on Baker Stacks 4.
  • motion picture producers and directors soviet union
  • russia in motion pictures OR soviet union in motion pictures
  • motion pictures, russian

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artThe BFI companion to Eastern European and Russian cinema by Richard Taylor; Julian Graffy; Dina Iordanova; Nancy Wood, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .E2 B44 2000
    ISBN: 9780851707532
    This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage. It includes entries on actors and directors and key figures like Eisenstein.
  • Cover artCinemasaurus: Russian film in contemporary context by Nancy Condee; Alexander Prokhorov; Elena Prokhorova, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5.R9 C56 2020
    ISBN: 9781644692714
    Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume's contributors--the new generation of US scholars studying Russian cinema--examine four issues of Russia's transition: Its imperial legacy; The emergence of a film market and its new genres; Russia's uneven integration into European values and hierarchies; The renegotiation of state power vis-à-vis arthouse and independent cinemas. ...
  • Cover artThe contemporary Russian cinema reader: 2005-2016 by Rimgaila Salys, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781618119636
    The early years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations, from the late Soviet directors through post-Soviet and New Russian filmmakers to the Russian millennials, have worked in varying visual styles and with diverse narrative strategies, while searching for a new cinematic language. ...
  • Fabrika zhestov by Oksana Bulgakova
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 B858 2005
    ISBN: 9785867933500
  • Cover artA history of Russian cinema by Birgit Beumers
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 B48 2009
    ISBN: 9781845202149
    Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the "most important of all arts" for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably with the work of Eisenstein, and a huge growth in the audience for film, which continued into the 1930s with the rise of musicals. The films of the World War II and Cold War periods reflected a return to political concerns in their representation of the "enemy." The 1960s and 1970s saw the rise of art-house films. With glasnost came the collapse of the state-run film industry and an explosion in the cinematic treatment of previously taboo topics. In the new Russia, cinema has become genuinely independent, as a commercial as well as an artistic medium. A History of Russian Cinema is the first complete history from the beginning of film to the present day and presents an engaging narrative of both the industry and its key films in the context of Russia's social and political history.
  • Letopisʹ rossiĭskogo kino 1863-1929 by V.I. Fomin, A.S. Der︠i︡abin ; sostaviteli V.E. Vishnevskiĭ ... et al.], eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 L457 2004
    ISBN: 9785856460864
  • Noveĭsha︠i︡a istori︠i︡a otechestvennogo kino, 1986-2000 by Aleksandr Golutva
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker/-Berry Ref. PN 1993.5 .R9 N68 2001 t. 1 - 7
    ISBN: 9785901586013

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artCharms of the cynical reason: the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture by Mark Lipovetsky
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PG 3096 .T75 L56 2011
    ISBN: 9781934843451
    The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-soviet tricksters, including such "cultural idioms" as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Shtirlitz, and others. ...
  • Cinema and Soviet society, 1917-1953 by Peter Kenez
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 K39 1992
    ISBN: 9780521428637
    In this history of Soviet cinema Peter Kenez describes the pre-revolutionary heritage, the changes brought about by the Revolution, the great flourishing of the golden years of the late 1920s, the constraints imposed on artists in the name of Socialist realism, the relative liberalization during the years of the Second World War, and the extraordinary repression during the gloomy last years of Stalin. The author's primary concern is the political uses of film. The Bolsheviks had high expectations: they believed that this medium would be a major vehicle for transmitting their social and political messages, and so experimented with the various ways with which they could bring movies to worker and peasant audiences. ...
  • Cover artInsiders and outsiders in Russian cinema by Stephen M. Norris and Zara M. Torlone, eds.
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 I59 2008
    ISBN: 9780253219824
    Identifying who was "inside" and who was "outside" the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film.
  • Istori︠i︡a sovetskogo kino by N.M. Zorka︠i︡a
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .S65 Z67 2005
    ISBN: 9785893294576
  • Rossiĭskiĭ ill︠i︡uzion by L.M. Bud︠i︡ak, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 R63 2003
    ISBN: 9785856461007
  • Russian war films: on the cinema front, 1914-2005 by Denise J. Youngblood
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .W3 Y68 2007
    ISBN: 9780700614899
    War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself.

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

Articles and other writings about Soviet or Russian film can be found in many publications. Our collection includes several journals which look exclusively at Russian or Soviet film. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page. Below are some of the titles we have in our Library's collection.

  • Issue cover artStudies in Russian and Soviet cinema
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema focuses on pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post- Soviet film, its aesthetic development, and its position between ideology and industry.
  • Resource logoKinokultura: new Russian cinema
    • Open Access Icon
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    An open access, online journal for Russian, former Soviet republics and Central Asian cinema.
  • Issue cover artIskusstvo kino = Искусство кино. by Soi͡uz kinematografistov Rossii
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    This is the leading journal of Russian cinema critics which publishes reviews of contemporary Russian and foreign movies, articles on history and theory of Russian and world cinema as well as general essays on Russian culture and arts.
  • Issue cover artSoviet film
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .R9 S543 [1980-1990]
  • Issue cover artThe current digest of the Russian press
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Each week the Current Digest presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about this national cinema.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected movie titles

Find more Russian language films in the library's online catalog.

  • Movie poster artKholodnoe leto p︠i︡atdes︠i︡at treʹtego = Cold summer of 1953 by Alexander Proshkin
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #1882
    Among the many criminals freed from the Soviet gulags in 1953 are two political prisoners. While waiting for the arrival of a boat in a small village, they help defend its inhabitants from the marauding criminals.
  • Cover artKrylʹ︠i︡a = Wings by Larisa Shepitko
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 7817
    ISBN: 9781604650488
    Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
  • Movie poster artMoskva slezam ne verit = Moscow does not believe in tears by Vladimir Menshov
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 612
    A romantic comedy about three young, working-class, country girls who go to Moscow in 1958 to seek work, men, and success. Looks at the results of their expedition in 1978.
  • Motion picture artNochnoĭ dozor = Night watch by Timur Bekmambetov
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 4313
    ISBN: 024543237488
    Living among humans are those who possess various supernatural powers. They are divided into the forces of light and the forces of the dark. Centuries ago both sides signed a treaty to end a war. Now the battle is about to happen again.
  • Motion picture artTikhiĭ Don = And quiet flows the Don by Sergei Gerasimov
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 6439 discs 1 - 4
    The film depicts the destinies of the Don Cossacks during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia.
  • Movie poster artI︡A l︠i︡ubl︠i︡u teb︠i︡a = You I love by Olga Stolpovskaya & Dmitry Troitsky
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 2842
    ISBN: 9781893410770
    Vera and Tim are successful, young professionals in modern Moscow. Their fast-paced lives crackle with the capitalist energy of excess, consumption and stress - and they are in love. But everything changes one night when Tim's car accidentally hits a cute, young guy named Uloomji.
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