Theatre
The theatre collection covers a century of Russian and Soviet
theatre history, with detailed materials on the 1920s-30s. It
is of interest to researchers and general readers.
It includes the writings of theatre practitioners such as Meyerhold,
Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov and Nemirovich-Danchenko. The history
of theatre covers the great theatre companies (Moscow Arts Theatre,
Maly, etc) and Soviet children's theatre, among others. There
is also theatre criticism, material on theatre design and stagecraft,
and a range of Soviet theatre yearbooks. Finally, the collection
includes memoirs and biographies of directors, actors and designers.
Titles are in English and Russian. For researchers, the loan
library collection is supplemented by books on theatre design
in the art reference collection
and theatre photographs from the 1920s-30s in the Huntly
Carter Collection within the photo library. The periodicals
section of the reference library also holds back issues of a variety
of Soviet theatre magazines.
Selected Titles
Moscow Arts Theatre Year Book (Izdaniye Museya Moskovskogo,
1943-50)
My Life in Art (Constantin Stanislavski, Meridian, New
York, 1959)
Vospominaniya (Solomon Mikhoels, Izdatel'stvo Iskusstvo,
Moscow, 1965)
My Life in the Russian Theatre (Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko,
Geoffrey Bles, London, 1968)
VE Meyerhold: Stat'i, pis'ma, rechi, besedy (Izdatel'stvo
Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1968)
The Vakhtangov School of Stage Art (Nikolai Gorchakov,
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1960s)
Zapiski rezhissera, stat'i, besedy, rechi, pis'ma (Aleksandr
Tairov, Vserossiyskoye Teatral'noye Obshchestvo, Moscow, 1970)
Cinema
The cinema collection includes theoretical works on Soviet cinema,
in-depth analyses of individual films, published scripts, and
memoirs, autobiographies and biographies of film practitioners.
It is of interest to film historians.
Directors such as Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov and Dovzhenko
helped create the language of cinema and make Soviet films among
the most innovative in the world. While these names dominate,
there were others such as Barnet, Kozintsev and Trauberg, Medvedkin
and, more recently, Paradzhanov, Tarkovsky and Muratova. The cinema
collection covers all these directors, but also lesser known names,
including pre-revolutionary cinema.
By the 1920s the development of theoretical approaches had become
important. Eisenstein is one of cinema's greatest theoreticians
and he is central to the Society's collection, but there are also
books by Pudovkin and others. In addition, there are several in-depth
analyses of individual films (from the earliest to modern classics)
by internationally respected critics and academics. The collection
also holds a significant number of published scripts of classic
Soviet films in English and Russian.
Alongside film directors, the collection includes memoirs, autobiographies
and biographies of Soviet actors, cinematographers and other cinema
workers.
The collection is supplemented by 16mm films of Soviet classics,
regularly shown at the Society, and a growing video and DVD loan
library. There are also back issues of a variety of Soviet film
magazines in the periodicals section of the reference library.
Selected Titles
The Film Sense (Sergei Eisenstein, translated by Jay
Leyda, Faber & Faber, London, 1943)
Izbranniye stsenarii sovetskogo kino (Goskino Izdatel'stvo,
Moscow, 1949-50, 6 volumes)
Iskusstvo millionov: Sovetskoye kino 1917-1957 (Gosudarstvennoye
Izdatel'stvo Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1958)
Film Technique and Film Acting (VI Pudovkin, Vision:
Mayflower, London, 1958)
Who's Who in the Soviet Cinema (G Dolmatovskaya &
I Shilova, Progress, Moscow, 1979)
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