The Man With the Movie Camera: The Film Companion (KINOfile)

The "KINO Russian Cinema" series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings to contemporary times. This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film "The Man with the Movie Camera" directed by Dziya Ventov, the people who made it, and the film itself, including its place in Russian and World cinema. This volume from the "KINO Russian Cinema" series investigates the production, context and reception of the film "The Man with the Movie Camera", the people who made it, and the film itself, including its place in Russian and World cinema. "This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film "The Man with the Movie Camera" directed by Dziya Ventov, the people who made it, and the film itself, including its place in Russian and World cinema."--Jacket To talk about 'plot' with reference to a non-fiction film, particularly this most militant of non-fiction films, may seem perverse.