Bumazhnyĭ Vertov--T︠S︡elluloidnyĭ Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ

Description:

The book re-contextualizes two key figures of the Russian revolutionary avant-garde: the film director Dziga Vertov as a literary author, and the poet Vladimir Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ as a film actor and screenwriter. The author examines various parallels in the two men's lives, art, and aesthetics as a kind of textual dialogue. Includes Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ's writings on cinema and previously unpublished poetry by Vertov.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Russian Motion picture plays,  History and criticism,  Russian poetry

People: Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930),  Dziga Vertov (1896-1954)

Times: 20th century