Doctor Zhivago

Name: Doctor Zhivago
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781844579211
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By Ian Christie

Series: BFI Film Classics

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Doctor Zhivago is an epic Russian love story set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events, exploring themes of passion, conflict, and endurance.
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Ideal for readers interested in film history, Russian culture, and Cold War-era classics.

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.

"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." - Michael Booke, Sight & Sound

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The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time. Ian Christie contextualises 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.

Series: BFI Film Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844579211

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: 60

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 160g

Pages: 100

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Arts & Culture Ian Christie Non-Fiction Series: BFI Film Classics

About the Author

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).