ASEEES (Pitt REES Booth # 404) cinema offerings

[Nancy Condee]

Dear colleagues,

 

For those of you who include cinema in your coursework or research, the
Pitt REES Booth (Booth # 404) at the ASEEES Book Exhibit will offer the
following three items.  The first two (HyperKino and KinoKlassika) are both
series (each DVD are available individually); the third item is a single
CD. 

 

Best wishes, Nancy Condee

 

Prof. N. Condee, Director, Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)
University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
4103 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 +1 412-363-7180; condee at pitt.edu;
www.ucis.pitt.edu/global




1.      HyperKino (10 DVDs with annotations, newsreel footage, and posters)

·         Boris Barnet, By the Bluest of Seas, 1936


·         Boris Barnet, Girl with a Hatbox, 1927


·         Boris Barnet, Outskirts, 1933


·         Mark Donskoi, The Childhood of Maksim Gor’kii, 1938


·         Sergei Eisenstein, October, 1927


·         Sergei Eisenstein, Strike, 1924


·         Lev Kuleshov, Engineer Prite’s Project, 1918


·         Lev Kuleshov, The Great Consoler, 1933


·         Aleksandr Medvedkin, Happiness, 1934


·         Vsevolod Pudovkin, Heir to Genghis Khan (Storm over Asia), 1928


This series of historical Russian cinema, presented in the innovative
Hyperkino format, is created by Natascha Drubek and Nikolai Izvolov.  The
films are presented in 2-disc Hyperkino editions: 

Ø  Disk 1 contains the standard film in the best available print, with
optional subtitles in Russian, English, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, and Spanish.

Ø  Disk 2 contains the film, plus scene-specific annotations based on
archival materials, including film clips and newsreel footage, texts,
photographs, posters, graphics, arts-and-crafts, music and audio files.
Texts are available in Russian and in English. These can be viewed on
screen, contextualizing the film and enhancing the viewer's understanding. 




2.      Russia’s Cinema Classics / KinoKlassika Rossii

(8 DVDs with interviews, filmographies, photo albums)

·         Iosif Kheifits, Lady with a Little Dog, 1960

·         Grigorii Kozintsev, Hamlet, 1964

·         Grigorii Kozintsev, King Lear, 1970

·         Andrei Tarkovskii, Andrei Rublev, 1966

·         Andrei Tarkovskii Ivan’s Childhood, 1962

·         Andrei Tarkovskii, Mirror, 1974

·         Andrei Tarkovskii, Solaris, 1972

·         Andrei Tarkovskii, Stalker, 1979

The DVD series KinoKlassika Rossii offers the best-known Soviet films with
subtitles in Russian, English, and French.  Each DVD includes a selection
of interviews with the film’s cast and crew, including scriptwriters,
actors, cameramen, and composers.  Among the extras are complete
filmographies, photo albums, and relevant documentary footage.  The DVD
series is ideal for coursework in film studies, advanced language training,
and Russian culture.  Eight films are currently available, with additional
DVDs planned in the coming year.

 

3.      Thaw Cinema: Anthology of Russian Cinema

Кино оттепели: Антология российского
кино

The CD anthology Thaw Cinema [Кино оттепели] is an invaluable
tool for research and coursework on post-Stalinist Soviet cinema (1953-
1968).  Intended for scholars of Russian film and cultural history, as well
as for advanced language “content courses,” the anthology, which contains
no English text, is a serious research kit, comprised of five sections.
The first section, Overview [Обзор], leads off with an essay by one of
Russia’s best-known scholars of Soviet cinema, Evgenii Margolit
(Scientific Research Institute of Cinema Art [NIIK], Moscow).  The main
body of the CD, Films [Фильмы], comprises an annotated catalogue of
over 300 Thaw full-length feature films, including such information-
unavailable at IMDB (International Movie Data Base)-as excerpts from
contemporary film reviews (with full citations) and comments from film-crew
memoirs.  This section contains entries on such rarities as Sergei
Iutkevich’s and Naum Kleiman’s 1967 Bezhin Meadow [Бежин луг], a
photo-film reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein’s destroyed 1935 work. 

 

The third section, Personalia [Персоналии], comprises portraits
of major figures in Thaw cinema, principally directors and script writers,
but also selected actors, novelists, film scholars and critics.  The
section provides handy biographical information hyperlinked where relevant
to the entries in Films and internally to other entries of Personalia. In
the fourth section, Images [Изображения], the viewer may examine
130 cinema posters and 70 production sketches, including the original
production sketches for Andrei Tarkovskii’s 1962 Ivan’s Childhood
[Иваново детство] and Andrei Konchalovskii’s 1966 shelved
and mutilated film, The Story of Asia Kliachina, Who Loved, but Did Not
Marry [История Аси Клячиной, которая любила,
да не вышла замуж] (limited, censored release 1977; restored
and released 1987).  In total, over 2000 illustrations and photographs are
available in the anthology. Seventeen clips in Film Fragments
[Фрагменты фильмов] conclude the anthology.  Useful for
coursework, these fragments are drawn from a broad range of Thaw films,
including Georgii Daneliia’s and Igor' Talankin’s 1960 Serezha
[Сережа], Lev Kulidzhanov’s 1961 When the Tree were Tall [Когда
деревья были большими], and Grigorii Kozintsev’s 1964
Hamlet [Гамлет].

 


 

 


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