Iskusstvo Kino Explained

Editor:	Stanislav Dedinsky
Category:	Film magazine
Lastdate:	May 2023
Country:	Russia
Based:	Moscow
Language:	Russian
Website:	Iskusstvo Kino
Issn:	0130-6405
Oclc:	3321631

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. 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. American scholar Vladimir Padunov contributed to the eightieth anniversary issue of the magazine.^[10] In the 1960s Valerii Golovskoi was the editor.^[11]

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.^[12] In 2004 the magazine sold 5,000 copies.^[3]

Daniil Dondurey was among magazine's editors.^[13] 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.^[14]

The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in Minneapolis.^[15]

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)^[13]
• Anton Dolin (2017–2022)^[17]
• Stanislav Dedinsky (2022)^[17]
• Nikita Kartsev (2023–present)^[17]

See also

• List of film periodicals

Notes and References

1. News: What money can buy, or: the stories of Musei Kino and Iskusstvo Kino. 2 February 2017. International Film Festival Rotterdam. 14 April 2010.
2. Web site: Iskusstvo kino digital archive. Harvard Library. 23 July 2023. 25 April 2016.
3. Book: The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe. Europa Publications. London; New York. 2004. 978-1-85743-255-8. 3564.
4. Web site: Soviet cinema: film periodicals, 1918-1942 Part 1. Journals. Movie Mags. 22 May 2010. 2 February 2017.
5. Web site: About Iskusstvo kino. East View. 2 February 2017.
6. David Aikman. What If the Soviet Union Collapses?. Time. 25 December 1989. 2 February 2017.
7. Book: Josephine Woll. Cranes are Flying: The Film Companion. 4. 2003. I.B. Tauris. 978-0-85771-169-4. London; New York.
8. Book: John Givens. 978-0-8101-1770-9. Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shukshin in Soviet Russian Culture. 2000. Northwestern University Press. 136. Evanston, IL.
9. Book: Andrew Dawson. Sean P. Holmes. 42. Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage. 2012. 978-1-78093-023-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=WTxMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA42. Bloomsbury Academic. London. Galina Gornostaeva. Soviet-filmmaking under the 'producership' of the party state (1955–1985).
10. News: Julian Graffy. The British Reception of Russian Film 1960-1990: The Role of Sight and Sound. 2 February 2017. Open Book Publishers. November 2012. Book Chapter.
11. Marko Dumanĉić. Rescripting Stalinist Masculinity: Contesting the Male Ideal in Soviet Film and Society, 1953-1968. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. PhD. 2010.
12. Alexander Fedorov. The Cinema Market: What About Russia?. Canadian Journal of Communication. 24. 1. 1999. 10.22230/cjc.1999v24n1a1086.
13. News: Steven Lee Myers. 'Borat' is not Approved for Distribution in Russia. 2 February 2017. The New York Times. 10 November 2006.
14. Web site: У редакции «Искусства кино» два объявления. Искусство кино. 23 July 2023. ru. 17 May 2023.
15. Web site: Russian and Soviet Film Periodicals. Princeton University Library. 2 February 2017. 4 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211204081552/https://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84442&p=541446. dead.
16. Web site: Армен Медведев: «Только о кино. Послесловие». Искусство кино. ru. 23 July 2023.
17. Web site: У журнала Искусство кино новый главред. 23 July 2023. ProfiCinema. ru. 18 March 2023.