Iskusstvo Kino
EditorStanislav Dedinsky
CategoriesFilm magazine
Frequency
  • Monthly (1931-1941)
  • Irregular (1945-1947)
  • Bi-monthly (1947-1951)
  • Monthly (1952-2023)
Founded1931 (1931)
Final issueMay 2023
CountryRussia
Based inMoscow
LanguageRussian
WebsiteIskusstvo Kino
ISSN0130-6405
OCLC3321631

Iskusstvo Kino (Russian: Искусство кино, Film Art) was a film magazine published in Moscow, Russia. It was 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 Cinéma.[1] It was a print publication between 1931 and 2023.

History and profile

The magazine was established in 1931.[1][2] Its original title was Proletarskoe kino which was used for one year between 1931 and 1932.[2] Then the magazine was renamed as Sovetskoe kino in 1933 and was published under this title until 1935.[2] Its headquarters was in Moscow.[3][4]

The magazine 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 appeared irregularly between 1945 and 1947.[2][5] After that it came out bi-monthly from 1947 to 1951.[5] From 1952 it was published monthly.[3][5]

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]

During the 1980s Iskusstvo Kino had a print run of 50,000 copies, while the magazine sold 2,000–3,000 copies in the 1990s.[13] In 2004 the magazine sold 5,000 copies.[3]

Daniil Dondurey was among magazine's editors.[14] He was succeeded by Anton Dolin in 2017, who raised a crowdfunding campaign for the magazine that gathered 3 million rubles. In 2020, Cinema Foundation of Russia refused to sponsor the magazine, a decision Dolin considered a retaliation for his critical reviews of the Foundation-sponsored films. In 2021, Iskusstvo Kino was crowdfunded again, raising 5 mln rub. In 2022, Dolin was proclaimed a foreign agent by Russian officials for political dissent and fled the country. The magazine ceased publication in May 2023 and became an online magazine.[15]

The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in Minneapolis.[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)[16]
  • Armen Medvedev (1982–1984)
  • Yuri Cherepanov (1984–1986)
  • Konstantin Shcherbakov (1987–1992)
  • Daniil Dondurey (1993–2017)[14]
  • Anton Dolin (2017–2022)[17]
  • Stanislav Dedinsky (2022)[17]
  • Nikita Kartsev (2023–present)[17]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 4 "Iskusstvo kino digital archive". Harvard Library. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe. London; New York: Europa Publications. 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. 1 2 3 4 "About Iskusstvo kino". 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. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-85771-169-4.
  8. ↑ John Givens (2000). Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shukshin in Soviet Russian Culture. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8101-1770-9.
  9. ↑ Galina Gornostaeva (2012). "Soviet-filmmaking under the 'producership' of the party state (1955–1985)". In Andrew Dawson; Sean P. Holmes (eds.). Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage. London: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-78093-023-7.
  10. 1 2 "Russian and Soviet Film Periodicals". Princeton University Library. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. 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.
  13. ↑ Alexander Fedorov (1999). "The Cinema Market: What About Russia?". Canadian Journal of Communication. 24 (1). doi:10.22230/cjc.1999v24n1a1086.
  14. 1 2 Steven Lee Myers (10 November 2006). "'Borat' is not Approved for Distribution in Russia". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  15. ↑ "У редакции «Искусства кино» два объявления". Искусство кино (in Russian). 17 May 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "Армен Медведев: «Только о кино. Послесловие»". Искусство кино (in Russian). Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  17. 1 2 3 "У журнала Искусство кино новый главред". ProfiCinema (in Russian). 18 March 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
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