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Russian film & lit

Below are some selected specific titles that could be useful to you:

Background information sources

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
Call Number: PN1997.8 .I58 2000
ISBN: 9781558624535
Publication Date: 2000-12-12
Available in both print and electronically
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film by Barry Keith Grant
ISBN: 9780028657912
Publication Date: 2006-12-15
Contains an in-depth entry on Russian and Soviet film
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television by Gale Editor (Editor)
ISBN: 1414471866
Publication Date: 2011-09-12
An encyclopedia that includes entries on Russian/Soviet filmmakers
Encyclopedia of Russian History
ISBN: 9780028656939
Publication Date: 2003-11-21
Contains entries on motion pictures, agitprop, and some filmmakers
Encyclopedia of World Biography 2 17v + Sup 18-23
ISBN: 9780787691240
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Contains entries on important Russian/Soviet filmmakers
Contemporary Authors, New Revision
ISBN: 1414429118
Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 141443765X
Literary Movements for Students
ISBN: 1414437196
Publication Date: 2009
A source to help you with terms like "formalism," "expressionism," etc.

Academic books

A Companion to Russian Cinema by Birgit Beumers (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118424735
Publication Date: 2016-05-17
eBook
Russia by Birgit Beumers (Editor)
ISBN: 9781841503721
Publication Date: 2011-02-15
A very good, comprehensive introduction to Russian film
Russian Cinema by David C. Gillespie
ISBN: 1138177253
Publication Date: 2016-07-15
eBook
Border Crossing by Alexander Burry (Editor); Frederick White (Editor)
ISBN: 9781474425919
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
eBook; a collection of essays on Russian literary works made in to films
Russian and Soviet film adaptations of literature, 1900-2001 screening the word
ISBN: 1134400586
Publication Date: 2005
Police Aesthetics by Cristina Vatulescu
ISBN: 9780804760805
Publication Date: 2010-10-25
eBook
Inside Soviet Film Satire by Andrew Horton (Editor)
ISBN: 0511527136
Publication Date: 2009-10-07
eBook
Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film by Yana Hashamova
ISBN: 1280762985
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story by Lyudmila Parts (Editor)
ISBN: 9781934843444
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature by Jonathan Stone
ISBN: 9780810873858
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Close Encounters by Robert Louis Jackson
ISBN: 9781936235568
Publication Date: 2013-03-01
A History of Russian Literature by Andrew Kahn; Mark Lipovetsky; Irina Reyfman; Stephanie Sandler
Call Number: PG2950 .K25 2018
ISBN: 9780199663941
Publication Date: 2018
Print book on the upper level
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature by Caryl Emerson
Call Number: PG2951 .E47 2008
ISBN: 9780521844697
Publication Date: 2008
Print book available on the upper level

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