new book on film in Russia ( former USSR )

[Steven Hill]

Dear colleagues on "SEELANGS":

One of our most knowledgeable veteran emigre film scholars, V. S.
Golovskoy,  whom I've known for years,  tells me that he has just completed
a new book about film in the former USSR, and it's about to be published in
Russian, under the title  "MEZHDU OTTEPEL'IU I GLASNOST'IU --
KINEMATOGRAF 70-YX GODOV " (Materik: Moskva, 2004; 390 pp., complete
with illustrations and name- & title-indexes).

Anyone interested in acquiring a copy direct from the author should contact
Golovskoy at the following address: "GOLOVSKOY at HOTMAIL.COM".
Likewise, if you have any questions about his book, send 'em to HIM
directly.

Judging from the contents, Golovskoy's upcoming book  will contain a great
deal of information as seen by an insider who worked as a critic and editor
in the heart of the Soviet film industry for two decades, until he emigrated to
the US in 1981. Since then Golovskoy has taught at various American
universities and the Foreign Service Institute of the US State Dept.,
worked as a journalist, and written many articles and one book in English,
"Behind the Soviet Screen" (Ardis '86; co-authored with John Rimberg).

Golovskoy's new book ("Kino 70-ykh godov") offers to bring together and
update his interpretation of the high and low points, the strange, the
contradictory, the unsavory, the bizarre, even the hilarious, sides of Soviet
cinema in the Brezhnev ("Zastoi") Era, from the mid-60s to the early 80s.  In
short -- the good, the bad, and the ugly, as seen by someone who was
there and saw it happening (but could not always write about it at that time),
while he toiled as a journalist-editor-translator for Moscow's Iskusstvo
Publishing House and for journals like "Iskusstvo kino," "Sovetskii ekran,"
and the Polish "Film" (Warsaw).

Chapters of his upcoming book offer to demystify how editors of Soviet
journals and presses operated, the mechanisms of Soviet film censorship,
the conflict of "commercialism" vs. "difficult art" on the Soviet screen,
feminist themes, film in Georgia (Gruzia), the changing depictions of Lenin
& Stalin,  successful and unsuccessful individual film-makers like
Bondarchuk, Riazanov, Tarkovskii, Shepitko, Muratova, Konchalovskii,
Men'shov, Mikhalkov, Frumin, Gubenko, Asanova, Ioseliani, Gogoberidze,
Chkheidze, and several others.
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Yours truly,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois (USA).
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