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Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film

Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film ilar tomes. Should you ever find yourself in search of genuine “old” New York, you could do worse than Sleazoid Express as your guide. —Mark Holcomb Liber, George O. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film. London: BFI Publishing, 2002. $58.00. In this book George O. Liber takes up the difficult task of writing a biography of a film director, which is supposed to account for both Dovzhenko’s life and his films. Liber’s story, narrated primarily as a struggle between Dovzhenko’s internal aspirations and the pressure of external conditions, is based on numerous archival materials as diverse as secret police reports and Dovzhenko’s scattered diaries, and on various published documents and scholarly works. Liber’s biography is first and foremost a story of Dovzhenko’s interaction with his time, with the political milieu of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, which had a fundamental impact on both Dovzhenko’s life and work. Liber also offers an analysis of each of Dovzhenko’s films and literary works in which he distinguishes between the elements that stem from Dovzhenko’s authentic imagination and those included in order to comply with the official policy. However, the clear-cut distinction between the internal and the external gets http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Film Quarterly University of California Press

Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film

Film Quarterly , Volume 58 (2) – Jan 1, 2004

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University of California Press
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0015-1386
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1533-8630
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10.1525/fq.2004.58.2.65.4
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ilar tomes. Should you ever find yourself in search of genuine “old” New York, you could do worse than Sleazoid Express as your guide. —Mark Holcomb Liber, George O. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film. London: BFI Publishing, 2002. $58.00. In this book George O. Liber takes up the difficult task of writing a biography of a film director, which is supposed to account for both Dovzhenko’s life and his films. Liber’s story, narrated primarily as a struggle between Dovzhenko’s internal aspirations and the pressure of external conditions, is based on numerous archival materials as diverse as secret police reports and Dovzhenko’s scattered diaries, and on various published documents and scholarly works. Liber’s biography is first and foremost a story of Dovzhenko’s interaction with his time, with the political milieu of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, which had a fundamental impact on both Dovzhenko’s life and work. Liber also offers an analysis of each of Dovzhenko’s films and literary works in which he distinguishes between the elements that stem from Dovzhenko’s authentic imagination and those included in order to comply with the official policy. However, the clear-cut distinction between the internal and the external gets

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Published: Jan 1, 2004

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