Doctor Zhivago
Publishing Details
Doctor Zhivago
By (Author) Ian Christie
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
BFI Publishing
11th November 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Film history, theory or criticism
Film: styles and genres
791.4372
Physical Properties
100
Width 132mm, Height 188mm, Spine 10mm
160g
Description
The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time. Ian Christie contextualizes the film as an epic Russian love story and a Cold War classic, charts its production and reception, including the contribution of designer John Box, and discusses the unique history of the Bruce Pasternak novel it is based on.
Reviews
Christie's study of the film's reception usefully debunks a few myths, and draws wry comparisons between American critics' attitudes towards the film with Soviet critics' similar, if more ideologically driven, objections to the novel. -- Sight & Sound * Michael Booke *
Author Bio
Ian Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster, Fellow of the British Academy and Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His many publications include books on Russian cinema, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Sergei Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam, as well as The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design (2012).
