Books by Jay Leyda
Kino
by Jay Leyda
Leyda knew Soviet cinema from the inside, and he decided in the 50s that he would write a proper history about it… I think it’s an absolute model. It’s one of those books, and there are just a handful of them, that when you go back to it – I’ve been going back to it for decades now – you always find different things in. They were always there but you never noticed them.
Interviews where books by Jay Leyda were recommended
The best books on Russian Cinema, recommended by Ian Christie
From Eisenstein to Tarkovsky, film scholar Ian Christie looks at the titans of Russian cinema and draws attention to the pre-Revolutionary Siberian gold merchant’s daughter who opened a cinema purely for the upper classes.
