{"product_id":"9781350246362-designing-russian-cinema-the-production-artist-and-the-material-environment-in-silent-era-film","title":"Designing Russian Cinema","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Production Artist and the Material Environment in Silent Era Film\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema’s connections with other art forms, examining how production artists drew on both aesthetic traditions and modernist experiments in architecture, painting and theatre as they explored the new medium of cinema and its potential to engender new models of perception and forms of audience engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on set design sketches, archival documents and film-makers’ memoirs,  Eleanor Rees reveals how less-canonical films such as \u003ci\u003eBehind the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKulisy ekrana\u003c\/i\u003e, 1919) and \u003ci\u003ePalace and Fortress\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDvorets i krepost\u003c\/i\u003e´, 1923), were remarkable from a design perspective, and also provides new readings of well-known films, such as \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Age\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDeti veka\u003c\/i\u003e, 1915) and \u003ci\u003eStrike\u003c\/i\u003e (Stachka, 1925). Rees brings to light information on significant but understudied figures such as Vladimir Egorov and Sergei Kozlovskii, and highlights the involvement of well-known figures such as Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandr Rodchenko. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the majority of late Imperial directors and camera operators, many early-Russian production artists continued to work in cinema in the Soviet era and to draw on practices forged before the 1917 Revolution. In spanning the entire silent era, this book highlights the often overlooked continuities between the late-Imperial and early-Soviet periods of cinema, thus questioning traditional historical periodisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40650509746273,"sku":"9781350246362","price":126.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31078825.jpg?v=1737617865","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350246362-designing-russian-cinema-the-production-artist-and-the-material-environment-in-silent-era-film","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}