Le film de mobilisation centrasiatique by Valérie Pozner

“…They also embody the main values of the Soviet motherland. This little set of motives was recycled in various genra (feature shorts, musicals, documentaries) which are analyzed here on the example of the production of the main Soviet studio during the World War II, that of Alma-Ata.…”
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De la paix à la guerre, de la fiction au documentaire. Alexandre Dovjenko et Youlia Solntseva by Vanessa Voisin

“…For private as well as public reasons, the by then famous Soviet director refused the mission ascribed to feature film directors -- that is contributing to general mobilisation of the country from the rear areas, in the evacuated studios. …”
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The Cinematic Visions and Dreams of Edgard Varèse by Gabriele

“…The paper retraces the compositional parabola that involved the author for the last years of his life, setting it down in the recording studios and human environments in which he found himself operating, in order to reconstruct, through the dense network of relationships between technology and thoughts, the milieu that gave rise to one of the multiple roots of film music. …”
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