film poster question

[Alexei Bogdanov]

Solomon Nikritin's painting "Screaming Woman" (1928) perhaps?

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Alexei Bogdanov
University of Colorado at Boulder

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From: "Charlotte Douglas" <douglas at NYU.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] film poster question


> No Jack, I should have mentioned that I had in mind (or imagined?) an
older
> woman  screaming in obvious panic.  Perhaps that is why I sort of
associate
> it with the events in the Battleship Potemkin.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> Charlotte
>
>
>
> >Dear Charlotte,
> >         Are you possibly thinking of Rodchenko's 1924/25 poster
> >advertising books for LENGIZ?  It features a photo of a woman on the left
> >shouting "Books" into a megaphone pointed to the right.  It's quite
famous
> >-- I've even seen post-Soviet advertising borrowing the design.  A 1924
> >version of Rodchenko's design is in D.A. Shmarinov, ed., et al., "A.M
> >Rodchenko, V.F. Stepanova," Moskva: Kniga, 1989, p. 102.  The more
colorful
> >1925 version -- the one most often reproduced -- is in, among other
places,
> >David Elliott, "Rodchenko and the Arts of Revolutionary Russia," NY:
> >Pantheon, 1979, pp. 18-19.
> >         Is this the poster you had in mind?
> >Jack Kollmann
> >
> >
> >>I seem to remember a 1920's film poster (Eisenstein? Potemkin?) that
> >>features a screaming woman, but I cannot find it.  Am I mistaken, or is
> >>there such a poster?
> >>Thanks,
> >>Charlotte Douglas
> >
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