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Article: Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception.(Review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- January 1, 1999
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Tsivian, Yuri, Alan Badger, trans., and
Richard Taylor, ed.
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural
Reception
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
273 pp., $19.00 paper, ISBN 0-226-81426-2
Publication Date: June 1998
As Tom Gunning notes in the foreword, the period 1896-1930 in Russian cinema has largely been neglected until the past decade, and author Yuri Tsivian is a pioneer in this regard. Tsivian's focus in this book, as his title indicates, is on the reception of the cinema in Russia. As he states on page 1, "Ideally, the practice of film history presupposes that each fact be considered from a dual perspective: as it appears to the film historian today ...