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Film Problems of Soviet Russia Photographs chosen and titled by Kenneth Macpherson
by BRYHER; MACPHERSON, Kenneth (photographs)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland: POOL, 1929. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis and 22 b/w plates. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and upper board sunned, extremities bruised, 1cm tear and small loss to tail of spine. Edges toned. Small ink smudges to p. 23 and adjacent plate, spine starting at p. 113, else, clean and tidy. A good copy of a colourful early account of the influential interwar cinema of Russia. In Film Problems, Bryher argued vociferously for the socio-political and aesthetic importance of Soviet Cinema and her right "as a freeborn English woman" to watch it; she sought a middle-way to discuss 'Russian film art,' for "either, it appears, you must be prepared to bayonet your aunt because she won't read Karl Marx, or else you must leave the room because Potemkin is mentioned" (p.11). Brim-full of striking stills � selected by Kenneth Macpherson � it is both a scathing indictment of British film censorship and a concerted attempt to circumvent it. According to Bryher, the publication of Film Problems resulted in her name being added to a 'blacklist' in the UK, which she was rather thrilled about. Includes chapters on Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2702
- Title
- Film Problems of Soviet Russia Photographs chosen and titled by Kenneth Macpherson
- Author
- BRYHER; MACPHERSON, Kenneth (photographs)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- POOL
- Place of Publication
- Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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