Lenin ON cinema

[Lilya Kaganovsky]

The quote appears in Taylor & Christie, The Film Factory, for the Year
1922, p. 56:

Anatoli Lunacharsky: Conversation with Lenin. I. Of All the Arts...
(Russian Source: G. M. Boltyanskii (ed.) Lenin i kino
(Moscow/Leningrad, 1925). pp. 16-19

Lunacharsky is quoting a private conversation with Lenin--this still
leaves open the question, of course, of whether or not Lenin 'actually'
said it.

-Lilya Kaganovsky

On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Pavel Lyssakov wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> Have you looked in this one: Roberts, Graham.  Forward Soviet! History
> and
> Non-fiction Film in the USSR. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999?
>
> There might be also something in books by Taylor.
>
> Best,
>
> Pavel
>
> Dr Pavel Lyssakov
> Director, International Programmes and Development
> Faculty of Political Science and Sociology
> The European University at St Petersburg
> Phone/Fax: +7 (812) 279-44-02
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Denner
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:09 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Lenin & cinema
>
>
> Dear SEELANGers!
>
> So, every book on Russian cinema has somewhere, on the overleaf or the
> back
> cover or in the first paragraph, a quote from Lenin about cinema being
> the
> most important of all arts. In all the books I have on Russian cinema
> (in
> Russian and in English), there's not a single citation for that quote.
> I'm
> beginning to think it apocryphal.
>
>
>
> I don't have one of those nifty quote reference books that some of my
> colleagues have (I need to get one) - are they any help with this
> question?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> mad
>
>
>
> ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
>
> Dr. Michael A. Denner
>
> Russian Studies Program
>
> Stetson University
>
> Campus Box 8361
>
> DeLand, FL 32724
>
> 386.822.7381 (department)
>
> 386.822.7265 (direct line)
>
> 386.822.7380 (fax)
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> http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
>
> http://russianpoetry.net
>
>
>
>
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Lilya Kaganovsky, Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Program in Comparative Literature & World Literature
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Unit for Cinema Studies
http://www.complit.uiuc.edu/lilya/index.html

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