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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. (pictorial paste-on cover illustratoins; no dust jacket) [a well-worn ex-library copy, with remnants of removed labels on front pastedown and ffep, bumping and edgewear all around; also note that the celluloid silhouette of Stalin is missing from this copy]. (B&W photographs) The Soviets' own assessment (in English) of their national cinema during the Stalin era, profusely illustrated. Includes: numerous articles on the Soviet film industry and its importance in the life of the nation and its people, the high political and artistic qualities of the country's cinematic art, etc.; biographical notes on 19 individual filmmakers (including Alexander Dovzhenko, V.I. Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Lev Kuleshov, Eduard Tisse); a section on the conception and production of the 1934 film CHAPAYEV, an epic film glorifying one of the heroes of the Revolution; statements "on Soviet film art" by 29 people, including many of the same filmmakers profiled in the biographical section, but also various foreigners such as Andre Gide, John Wexley, John Howard Lawson, and Cecil B. DeMille (wonder how the staunchly anti-communist DeMille felt about that, a few years later?). The last dozen or so pages contain ads from various Soviet producing firms, touting their recent product. NOTE, again, that the celluloid silhouette of Stalin is missing from this copy -- although the fold-out page with the cut-out window (through which Lenin can be seen) is fully intact, and the book is otherwise complete with no missing pages or textual markings. A serviceable copy of a fairly rare book, designed by Constructivist artists Rodchenko and Stepanova. Breixo Viejo, in "Film Books: A Visual History" (15.4), describes it as "an explosive combination of avant-garde design and Communist propaganda, [with] a lively internal layout of flexible grid and two-color sans-serif typefaces," ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this somewhat heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.****.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. First edition. Quarto. 312 (2,10)pp. Original red faux half leather over paper covered boards illustrated with film imagery and red lettering on covers, black on spine, protected by modern mylar. Inside covers and endpapers illustrated with film images on photo paper, printed in orange. Color illustrated half-title and title page, both with film strips in color. Each chapter with cover page showing its number in a lithographically printed red square. Design and photomontage by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko. Elaborate publication celebrating fifteen years of Soviet cinema with contributions by B. Shumyatsky, A. Stetsky and A. Arossev and many others. Chapter two elaborates on the basic trends in Soviet film art as well as literature on the subject, followed by twenty-one biographical notes on the premiere Soviet filmmakers, incl. A. Dovzhenko, V. Pudovkin, S. Eisenstein and others. The volume covers cinematography in "Soviet White Russia, the Ukraine, Armenia and the Central Asia Republics of the USSR. Chapter five is dedicated to the film "Chapayev", chapter six introduces Soviet newsreels, the film "Chelyuskin" and scientific-educational cinematography. Chapter seven treats the Soviet film industry, its popularization and cinema in the Collective Farms. Chapter eight with thirty short contributions of Soviet film art by thirty authors, including André Gide and Cecil B. de Mille and finally, in chapter nine, a chronology of Soviet film starting with Lenin's Decree on the nationalization of the film industry on August 27th, 1919, and a list of honors bestowed on workers in Soviet cinematography. The volume is profusely illustrated with b/w offset reproductions of cinematographer portraits, film stills throughout, some in color or sepia-toned, including a b/w fold-out of a cinema's audience in front of a big screen with a cutout, as issued, showing Lenin's head depicted in a photograph on the next page respectively the Lenin quote "Cinema is for us the most important for arts" on the previous page; this ploy is repeated on page 273 with a cutout, as issued, revealing a film still from the Eisenstein film "October" on the next, a head shot of Eisenstein on the previous page; missing the tipped-in celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette. Four pages of advertisements at rear followed by ten pages with b/w offset reproductions of film still and posters, all posters featuring photomontages. Text printed to regular, photographs to glossy paper. Recto of back endpaper with stamp "4) N A7." Pages 197 through 200 with straight cuts in pages. Various pages with ball-point pen lines in geometrical fashion framing or connecting film imagery of the page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Voks. 1935. 312 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White plates. First Edition/First Printing. Text in English. Bound in decorative illustrated boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present present to the extremities. Celluloid of Stalin's head has seen better days (see photo; it is present but in fragments). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An impressive feat of Soviet propaganda, the book featured history and biographies, with portraits, of key Russian filmmakers, actors, famous movies, critics' statements and more. In true Soviet fashion, it also included the celebrated fold-out, die-cut, image of a cinema's audience in front of a big screen with a "hole," through which Lenin's head peeked (see photo) , as well as the tipped-in, celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette (rarely found intact, see photo). The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite films in the Russian language being predominant in the body of work so described, includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow. Most prolific in their republican films, after the Russian SFSR, were the Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and, to a lesser degree, Lithuanian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Moldavian SSR. At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union. E-048; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Design and photomontage by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko. Quarto. 312, [12]pp. Text in English. Quarter red leather and cloth with paper illustration over boards. Endpapers illustrated with film images on photo paper. Extensively illustrated, with innovatively illustrated half-title and title page with film illustrations in color, tipped-in celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette, a folding plate of a theatre and audience, etc. Publication celebrating an overview of the Soviet cinema with contributions by many, profiles of filmmakers, mention of the industry in Soviet Union vassal states, etc. Near fine.

AROSSEV, A. [ed.]. Soviet Cinema. 312 pp., illustrated throughout, plus 14 pp. of advertisements. 8vo, bound in publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Moscow: Voks, 1936. An unusually fine copy of this rare and fragile history of Soviet film with photomontages by Rodchenko and Stepanova. Published at the high watermark of state-controlled Soviet cinema and includes work by some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium. The plate depicting Stalin's head in profile printed on cellophane is still intact, unlike in almost all copies. Heiting and Karasik, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1940, p. 418-419.