Contents

	Illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Notes on contributions
	General editors’ preface
	Acknowledgements
	Note on transliteration and translation
	Introduction: Entering the film factory Richard Taylor and Ian Christie
1	Early Russian cinema: some observations Yuri Tsivian
2	Kuleshov’s experiments and the new anthropology of the actor Mikhail Yampolsky
3	Intolerance and the Soviets: a historical investigation Vance Kepley, Jr
4	The origins of Soviet cinema: a study in industry development Vance Kepley, Jr
5	Down to earth: Aelita relocated Ian Christie
6	The return of the native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet cinema Denise J. Youngblood
7	A face to the shtetl: Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924–36 J.Hoberman
8	A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet director Bernard Eisenschitz
9	Interview with Alexander Medvedkin
10	Making sense of early Soviet sound Ian Christie
11	Ideology as mass entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet cinema in the 1930s Richard Taylor
	Notes
	Index