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FILMS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON:
The Media Services Department (Wells Library) has a small collection of Central Eurasian films in vernacular languages (most subtitled in English). Search IUCAT for videorecordings (after log-in, choose "DVD/Video search" in right-hand menu; you may choose a language in search box near bottom of screen).
- Two epochs of national self-determination in Central Asian cinema: the '60s and '90s (Media Services/Wells Library: a DVD collection--with a printed guide--of 10 narrative films from Central Asia produced during the Soviet and post-independence eras; English subtitles)
- Documentary films of Central Asia (Media Services/Wells Library: a 10-disc DVD collection of 70 documentary films from Central Asia produced during the Soviet and post-independence eras; English subtitles)
- Hungarian-language films (Media Services/Wells Library)
- Films in the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (Global and International Studies Building (GA) 3010)
- Films in the Russian and East European Institute (REEI) (available for loan to instructors; Global and International Studies Building)
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS FOR CENTRAL EURASIAN CINEMA:
- KinoKultura: new Russian cinema (KiKu) (quarterly in English)
- Slavic and East European performance: drama, theatre, film (2005-present online; requires IU log-in; also available in print in Wells Library)
- Studies in Russian and Soviet cinema (2007-present; requires IU log-in)
- Территория кино (in Russian; the only e-journal devoted to Central Asian cinema, edited by Gulnara Abikeyeva and produced by Kazakhfilm)
ONLINE READING AND OTHER SOURCES FOR CENTRAL EURASIAN CINEMA (arranged by country):
General Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan):
- Central Asia: redefining its cultural roots (Gönül Dönmez-Colin, 2002)
- Central Asian films (Jared Rapfogel, 2003)
- Central Asia (2004 special issue of KinoKultura)
- Russian and Soviet cinema: a bibliography (a selected bibliography of approximately 70 monographs and articles about Central Asian film compiled by Vladimir Padunov, University of Pittsburgh, 2005)
- Wind from the steppes: a brief history of Central Asian cinema during the Soviet era (Olaf Möller, 2003)
- Lone wolves at the door of history (Kent Jones, 2003)
- New "New" Wave filmmakers welcome their audiences' discomfort: Kazakh and Kyrgyz youth films (Jane Knox-Voina, 2009)
Azerbaijan:
- Cinema: can it be revived? (1997 issue of the online journal Azerbaijan International devoted to Azerbaijani cinema)
Estonia:
- Estonia (news, links, and other useful information for Estonian cinema from FilmNewEurope.com)
- Estonian Film Foundation = Eesti Filmi Sihtasutus (includes annotated lists of films produced since early 1900s: click on "films" tab)
Hungary:
- FilmHu (portal in Hungarian; associated English-language website FilminHungary)
- History of the Hungariam film from the beginning until 1945 (Gyöngyi Balogh, 2000)
- Film Institute / National Film Archive of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum) (e-journal, Filmkultúra)
- Magyar Filmunió
Kazakhstan:
- 2009 Roundtable on Young Kazakh Cinema (4 articles in KinoKultura, no. 27: January 2010)
- Казахфильм / Kazakhfilm (national film studio)
- Kino.kz (commercial website for contemporary Kazakh cinema; in Russian)
- Kinostan (in Kazakh)
- The New Wave in Kazakh cinema (Ludmilla Zebrina Pruner, 1992)
- Stars above Almaty: Kazakh cinema between 1998 and 2003 (Vladimir Padunov, 2004)
- Three generations of Kazakh cinematographers: action--reaction--change of reality (Inna Smailova, 2008)
Kyrgyzstan:
- KyrgyzCinema (information about Kyrgyz cinema from the local Cinema Development Fund)
- Киргизфильм / Kyrgyzfilm (national film studio; in Russian)
- New cinema in Kyrgyzstan (Aliya Moldalieva, 2008)
Mongolia:
- Mongolian cinema (incomplete list of 1936-1990 films produced by Mongol Kino, the Soviet-era national film studio; website last updated 2009)
- Movies in and on Mongolia (includes links to articles by Diane Gabrysiak, Oliver Corff, and John W. Williams, ca. 1990s)
- Mongol Kino (general website in Mongolian)
Tajikistan:
- Tajik cinema: a view from outside (Gulnara Abikeyeva, 2003)
- Таджикфильм / Tojikfilm (national film studio)
Tibet:
- Cinema and Tibet: a brief historical overview (Jamyang Norbu, 2004)
- The Happy Light Bioscope Theatre and other stories: a brief historical overview of cinema in Tibet, Part 1 and Part 2 (Jamyang Norbu, 2010)
- Tibet on film: a list of feature films and television programmes featuring Tibet, Part 1 (1921-1984) and Part 2 (1985-2005) (Michael Organ, 2005) (annotated list of Western films)
- Tibet Views - Tibet in Motion: Directory of Videos on Tibet and Tibetan Culture (excellent resource for Tibetan cinema; see also archival documents)
Turkey:
- Turkish cinema (Directorate General of Press & Information, Turkish Cultural Foundation)
- Türk Sineması Araştırmaları (TSA) (Turkish cinema studies; interface in Turkish)
- Türk Sineması Arşivi (searchable archive of historical documents about Turkish cinema; interface in Turkish)
- Türkiye Sinema Eseri Sahipleri Meslek Birliği (SESAM) (Turkish film producers union)
Turkmenistan:
- I cannot be fully happy...: interview with Khodzhakuli Narliyev (Gulnara Abikeyeva, 2001)
Uzbekistan:
- Uzbek cinema (from Kultura.uz, a current website for art and culture in Uzbekistan; in Russian)
- Uzbek rhapsody: the films of Ali Khamraev
- Узбекфильм / Uzbekfilm (national film studio)
- UzbekKino (national agency founded in 2004)
- UzCinema (portal)
GENERAL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR EURASIAN CINEMA:
- Энциклопедия отечественного кино (Encyclopedia of National Cinema [2011]; an excellent historical encyclopedia for Soviet and post-independence national cinema; in Russian)
- Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC)
- Internet Movie Database (IMDb) (see the Country Index)
- Ellen-Fairbanks D. Bodman Collection of Middle Eastern and Islamic World Films (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) ("the largest compilation of films on the Muslim world in North America, and perhaps in the English-speaking world")
- Almaty International Film Festival (Almatinskii Mezhdunarodnyi Kinofestival') (annual festival held since 2003)
- Didor International Film Festival
- Eurasia International Film Festival (held annually in Kazakhstan)
- Forum of National Cinematography (an important, annual event that showcases films produced in the CIS and Baltic states; no dedicated website)
- Kinoshok (Киношок) (annual film festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia)
- 2010 East Meets West Film Forum & Festival (EMWFF) (held in Mongolia)
SELECTED PRINT RESOURCES IN IU-BLOOMINGTON LIBRARY:
- Being and becoming: the cinemas of Asia (edited by Aruna Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar, and Rashmi Doraiswamy, 2002) [RSCH: PN 1993.5 .A75 B45 2002] (contains historical summaries by country)
- Le Cinéma d'Asie centrale sovietique (edited by Jean Radvanyi, 1991) [ALF: PN 1993.5 .R92 S62 1991]
- Cinema in Central Asia: rewriting cultural histories (edited by Michael Rouland, Gulnara Abikeyeva, Birgit Beumers, 2013) (ebook and print: PN1993.5.A7525 C564 2013)
- Cinemas of the other: a personal journey with film-makers from the Middle East and Central Asia (Gönül Dönmez-Colin, 2006) [ebook and print: PN 1998.2 .D664 2006]
- Cinemaya: the Asian film magazine (published 1988-2004) [RSCH: PN 1993 .C585 no.1-64] (contains interviews and articles related to Central Asian cinema)
- Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film (Oliver Leaman, ed., 2001) [REF: PN 1993.5 .A65 C66 2001]
- Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet cinema (Peter Rollberg, 2009) [REF: PN 1998.2 .R578 2009]
- Istoriia sovetskogo kino, 1917-1967 (Khandzhara Abul-Kasymova, ed., 1969-1978) [ALF: PN 1993.5 .R9 I87 v.1-4] (the most comprehensive source for the history of Soviet cinema)
- Two epochs of national self-determination in Central Asian cinema: the 60-s and 90-s = Dve epokhi natsional'nogo samoopredeleniia v kino TSentral'noi Azii: 60-e i 90-e gody (Gulnara Abikeyva, 2006; this booklet accompanies the set of 10 films in the "Kino TSentral'noi Azii" series) [Wells Media Services: PN 1997 .K56547 2006 Text]
- Cinema in Turkey: a new critical history (Savas Arslan, 2011) [PN 1993.5 .T8 A77 2011]
- Türk filmleri sözlügü (Agâh Özgüç, 1990-2003) [ALF: PN 1993.5 .T8 O27 1990 v.1-3] See also: online extracts
- Hungarian cinema: from coffee house to multiplex (John Cunningham, 2004) [RSCH: PN 1993.5 .H8 C8 2004]
- World cinema: Hungary (Bryan Burns, 1996) [RSCH: PN 1993.5 .H8 B87 1996]
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