Woman with a Movie Camera
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Woman with a Movie Camera

My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Woman with a Movie Camera

My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

About this book

Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than one hundred programs for Russian, European, Japanese, and American television. Her work, which includes the award-winning films The House on Arbat Street, The Shattered Mirror, and Solovky Power, has garnered international acclaim and won virtually every prize given for documentary filmmaking. In Woman with a Movie Camera, Goldovskaya turns her lens on her own life and work, telling an adventurous, occasionally harrowing story of growing up in the Stalinist era and subsequently documenting Russian society from the 1960s, through the Thaw and Perestroika, to post-Soviet Russia. She recalls her childhood in a Moscow apartment building that housed famous filmmakers, being one of only three women students at the State Film School, and working as an assistant cameraperson on the first film of Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia's most celebrated director. Reviewing her professional filmmaking career, which began in the 1960s, Goldovskaya reveals her passion for creating films that presented a truthful picture of Soviet life, as well as the challenges of working within (and sometimes subverting) the bureaucracies that controlled Russian film and television production and distribution. Along the way, she describes a host of notable figures in Russian film, theater, art, and politics, as well as the technological evolution of filmmaking from film to video to digital media. A compelling portrait of a woman who broke gender and political barriers, as well as the eventful four decades of Russian history she has documented, Woman with a Movie Camera will be fascinating reading for a wide audience.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Series Page
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. ContentsĀ 
  6. Foreword by Robert Rosen
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Father
  10. Childhood
  11. Our House
  12. Bolshevo
  13. Those Times
  14. I Will Be a Camerawoman
  15. Where to Next?
  16. Lessons of Television
  17. Teaching
  18. The Weavers
  19. My First Film Portrait
  20. Professional Infatuations
  21. Them
  22. The Ordeal
  23. Compromises
  24. Sharp Angles
  25. On the Threshold of Change
  26. Arkhangelsk Muzhik
  27. Oleg Efremov
  28. Solovki Power
  29. Life Is More Talented Than We Are
  30. Perestroika: Another Life
  31. A Taste of Freedom
  32. Once More about Scripts
  33. Earthquake
  34. The House on Arbat Street
  35. Life with a Camera
  36. Technology and Creativity
  37. The Prince
  38. On Ethics
  39. Life with a Camera (Continued)
  40. Documentary Trip
  41. Filmography of Marina Goldovskaya
  42. Appendix: Notable Figures in Soviet Filmmaking and Other Arts
  43. Index