Iskusstvo Kino

Iskusstvo Kino (Искусство кино, meaning Film Art in English) is a film magazine published in Moscow, Russia. It has been published since 1931 and is one of the earliest magazines in Europe, which specialize on film theory and review, alongside the British magazine Sight & Sound and the French magazine Cahiers du Cinema.[1]

Iskusstvo Kino
EditorAnton Dolin
CategoriesFilm magazine
FrequencyMonthly (1931-1941)
Irregular (1945-1947)
Bi-monthly (1947-1951)
Monthly (1952-present)
Year founded1931 (1931)
CountryRussia
Based inMoscow
LanguageRussian
WebsiteIskusstvo Kino
ISSN0130-6405
OCLC3321631

History and profile

The magazine was founded in 1931.[1][2] The headquarters is in Moscow.[3][4] It was published on a monthly basis from its start in 1931 to 1941.[5] Following its temporary closure during World War II it was relaunched in 1945 and was published irregularly between 1945 and 1947.[5] After that it was published bi-monthly from 1947 to 1951.[5] Since 1952 it has been published monthly.[5][3]

During the Soviet period Iskusstvo Kino was the official magazine for cinema industry in the country.[6] The magazine included the editorials by the leading Communist Party officials.[7] At the same time it argued that films should meet the demands by public.[8] From 1963 the magazine and another film magazine Soviet Screen began to be published newly founded state-funded company Goskino, which was responsible body for the coordination of film production and distribution in the Soviet Union.[9]

The magazine covers articles on film theory and film reviews.[10] American scholar Vladimir Padunov contributed to the eightieth anniversary issue of the magazine.[11] In the 1960s Valerii Golovskoi was the editor.[12] Daniil Dondurey is among magazine's recent editors.[13]

During the 1980s Iskusstvo Kino had a print run of 50,000 copies, while it became between 2,000 and 3,000 copies in the 1990s.[14] In 2004 the magazine sold 5,000 copies.[3]

The longtime editor-in-chief Daniil Dondurey died in 2017. He was succeeded by Anton Dolin, who raised a crowdfunding campaign for the magazine that gathered 3 million rubles.

The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in Minneapolis.[2][10]

The editors
  • Ivan Pyryev (1946)
  • Nikolai Lebedev (1947–1949)
  • Dmitri Eryomin (1949–1951)
  • Vitaly Zhdan (1951–1956)
  • Lyudmila Pogozheva (1956–1969)
  • Yevgeny Surkov (1969–1982)
  • Armen Medvedev (1982–1984)
  • Yuri Cherepanov (1984–1986)
  • Konstantin Shcherbakov (1987–1992)
  • Daniil Dondurey (1993–2017)
  • Anton Dolin (since 2017)

See also

References
  1. "What money can buy, or: the stories of Musei Kino and Iskusstvo Kino". International Film Festival Rotterdam. 14 April 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. "Russia, Eastern European, and other Eurasian Countries". East View. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe. Taylor & Francis Group. 2004. p. 3564. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  4. "Soviet cinema: film periodicals, 1918-1942 Part 1. Journals". Movie Mags. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  5. "About Iskusstvo kino" (PDF). East View. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  6. David Aikman (25 December 1989). "What If the Soviet Union Collapses?". Time. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  7. Josephine Woll (2003). Cranes are Flying: The Film Companion. I.B.Tauris. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-85771-169-4.
  8. John Givens (2000). Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shukshin in Soviet Russian Culture. Northwestern University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8101-1770-9.
  9. Andrew Dawson; Sean P. Holmes (2012). Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage. A&C Black. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-78093-023-7.
  10. "Russian and Soviet Film Periodicals". Princeton University Library. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  11. Julian Graffy (November 2012). "The British Reception of Russian Film 1960-1990: The Role of Sight and Sound" (Book Chapter). Open Book Publishers. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  12. Marko Dumanĉić (2010). "Rescripting Stalinist Masculinity: Contesting the Male Ideal in Soviet Film and Society, 1953-1968" (PhD Thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  13. Steven Lee Myers (10 November 2006). "'Borat' is not Approved for Distribution in Russia". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  14. Alexander Fedorov (1999). "The Cinema Market: What About Russia?". Canadian Journal of Communication. 24 (1).
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