Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-garde (KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema)

Pudovkin is listed amongst the great and the good of twentieth century directors: his influence is acknowledged by such diverse figures as Hitchcock and Kubrick, Zavattini and Mamet, and Walter Benjamin usedhis work as a vital source forhis studies of the aesthetics and cultural politics of the period.Vsevelod Pudovkin: Classic Works of the Soviet Avant-Garde is the first book on Pudovkin for more than twenty-five years. It covers his career from his apprenticeship with Gardin and Kuleshov in the early'20s to his sound films of the early'30s. It discusses films on which Pudovkin worked as director, as collaborator and in which he appeared, from the famous troika, The Mother, The End of St Petersburg and Storm over Asia to the lesser known The Mechanics of the Brain and The Living Corpse. Pudovkin's art is placed in the context of his contribution to the cultural and political fervour of Soviet Russia after the Revolution, and especially the theoretical disputes with his contemporary Eisenstein. The book also suggests broader alignments within European avant-garde movements and takes a close look at the influence D. W. Griffith exerted over this giant of early Soviet film-making.Vsevelod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-Garde is the companion volume to Richard Taylor's translations of Pudovkin's writings, The Pudovkin Collection. Pudovkin is listed amongst the great and the good of twentieth century his influence is acknowledged by such diverse figures as Hitchcock and Kubrick, Zavattini and Mamet, and Walter Benjamin usedhis work as a vital source forhis studies of the aesthetics and cultural politics of the period. Vsevelod Classic Works of the Soviet Avant-Garde is the first book on Pudovkin for more than twenty-five years. It covers his career from his apprenticeship with Gardin and Kuleshov in the early '20s to his sound films of the early '30s. It discusses films on which Pudovkin worked as director, as collaborator and in which he appeared, from the famous troika, The Mother, The End of St Petersburg and Storm over Asia to the lesser known The Mechanics of the Brain and The Living Corpse. Pudovkin's art is placed in the context of his contribution to the cultural and political fervour of Soviet Russia after the Revolution, and especially the theoretical disputes with his contemporary Eisenstein. The book also suggests broader alignments within European avant-garde movements and takes a close look at the influence D. W. Griffith exerted over this giant of early Soviet film-making. Vsevelod Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-Garde is the companion volume to Richard Taylor's translations of Pudovkin's writings, The Pudovkin Collection. "Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-Garde is the first work on Pudovkin for more than twenty-five years. It covers his career from his apprenticeship with Gardin and Kuleshov in the early 1920s to his sound films of the early 1930s. It discusses films on which Pudovkin worked as director or collaborator and those in which he appeared, from the famous troika The Mother, The End of St. Petersburg and Storm Over Asia to the less well-known The Mechanics of the Brain and The Living Corpse. Pudovkin's work is placed in the context of his contribution to the cultural and political fervour of Soviet Russia after the Revolution and especially the theoretical disputes with his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein. Amy Sargeant also suggests broader alignments within European avantgarde movements and looks at the influence that D.W. Griffith exerted over this giant of early Soviet film-making. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-Garde is the companion volume to Richard Taylor's translations of Pudovkin's writings, The Pudovkin Collection."--Jacket In his 1951 essay 'How I Became a Film Director', Pudovkin outlines a basic autobiography: he was born in Penza in 1893 and in his youth his interests included painting, music and theatre.