Doctor Zhivago

ISBN-13: 9781844579211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 100 str.

Ian Christie

Opis

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time. Ian Christie contextualizes the film as an epic Russian love story and a Cold War classic, charts its production and reception, including the contribution of designer John Box, and discusses the unique history of the Bruce Pasternak novel it is based on.

Recenzje

Christie's study of the film's reception usefully debunks a few myths, and draws wry comparisons between American critics' attitudes towards the film with Soviet critics' similar, if more ideologically driven, objections to the novel. Sight & Sound Michael Booke

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.- 1. How Zhivago Happened.- 2. Between Beauty and Goodness: the Making of Zhivago.- 3. Reception and Retrospect.- Notes.- Credits.

O autorze

Ian Christie is Fellow of the British Academy and Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He co-edited the collection Eisenstein Rediscovered (1993) as well as organising a 1988 Oxford conference that preceded it. He has long been active in presenting Eisenstein's silent films with live accompaniment, and in promoting awareness of the drawings, most recently in Eisenstein on Paper: The Graphic Works (2017). Among many exhibitions, he co-curated Eisenstein: His Life and Work (Oxford, London and Manchester, 1988), and Unexpected Eisenstein (London, 2016).