Books by Yuri Tsivian
“Tsivian’s approach is very different from anyone else’s: because what he does is to relate the film intimately to Eisenstein’s inner life.” Read more...
The best books on Russian Cinema
Ian Christie, Film Critics & Scholar
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception
by Yuri Tsivian
Tsivian had this idea to try to reconstruct the history of early Russian cinema, and to approach it through a deeply contextual history. I do regularly urge people to read it who have no interest in early Russian cinema at all, because it gives them tools to understand cinema in a way that nothing else I know does.
Interviews where books by Yuri Tsivian 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.
