Subject guides: Slavic & Eastern European Studies: Film & TV

Library Guide

Databases

Key Journals

Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
Publication Date: 2007 - present
ISSN: 1750-3140
Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema focuses on pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post- Soviet film, its aesthetic development, and its position between ideology and industry.
KinoKultura: New Russian Cinema
Publication Date: 2003 - present
ISSN 1478-6567
Quarterly online journal includes articles and reviews on on contemporary Russian visual culture, especially cinema, as well as festival reports.
Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
Publication Date: 2015 -
ISSN 2365-7758
Apparatus is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dealing with film, media and digital cultures of Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe – current and historical.

TV Online

SBS Українська мова
SBS Ukrainian news, contains radio podcast and video on demand in Ukrainian.
Первый канал
Channel One Russia was the first television channel to broadcast in the Russian Federation. The website offers streaming of many of their programs.
b92
Serbian radio and TV station and news outlet, provides streaming of their programs with the website available in Serbian and English.

Russian Movies Online

Мосфильм
Founded in 1920, Mosfilm holds a unique catalog of motion picture produced in the Soviet Union and modern Russia. A large part of this catalog has been made available online through youtube, and many films include English subtitles.
Vintage Film Club
Russian Classic Films Online from the Lenfilm studio. Movies are available for rent or purchase, but the site also includes a section where you can watch a selection of movies for free with English subtitles.

National Film Archives

FIAF
Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film
International Federation of Film Archives
Національний центр Олександра Довженка
National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre is a state enterprise that integrates the State Film Archive of Feature Films and the Film Copying Laboratory. De-facto, Dovzhenko Centre is the state Ukrainian cinemateque. It is the only Member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in Ukraine.
Hrvatska kinoteka
Croatian Film Archive.
Југословенска кинотека
National film archives of the Republic of Serbia, founded in 1949 as the central Yugoslav Film Archive.
Българска Национална Филмотека
Bulgarian National Film Archive
Národní filmový archiv
Czech National Film Archive
Госфильмофонд России
Gosfilmofond of Russia is a federal government state-funded cultural institution-cinematic organization, that is storing collections of movies and other film materials, as well as implements collecting, art manufacturing, culturally educational, artistically historical, filmographic, methodological and informative activities.

Reference Works - Cinema in the Soviet Union, Russia and Eastern Europe

The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema by Richard Taylor (Editor); Julian Graffy (Editor); Dina Iordanova (Editor); Nancy Wood (Editor)
ISBN: 085170753X
Publication Date: 2000
Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 by Sanja Bahun (Editor); John Haynes (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415813235
Publication Date: 2014
Directory of World Cinema : Russia by Birgit Beumers (Editor)
ISBN: 9781841503721
Publication Date: 2011
Handbook of Soviet and East European Films and Filmmakers by Thomas J. Slater
ISBN: 031326239X
Publication Date: 1991
Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema by Lilya Kaganovsky (Editor); Masha Salazkina (Editor)
ISBN: 9780253011107
Publication Date: 2014
Iconic turns : nation and religion in Eastern European cinema since 1989 by Liliya Berezhnaya
ISBN: 9789004250819
Publication Date: 2013
The cinema makers : public life and the exhibition of difference in South-Eastern and Central Europe since the 1960's by Anna Schober
ISBN: 9781841505152
Publication Date: 2013
A Society in Distress : the image of the Czech Republic in contemporary Czech feature film by Jan Culík
ISBN: 9781845195519
Publication Date: 2013
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition by Peter Hames
ISBN: 9780748620814
Publication Date: 2009

National Film Organisations

National Film Organizations promote national cinema and provide a wide range of resources including trailers, cast, and information about film festivals and screenings.

Most of the following organizations are part of European Film Promotion (EFP), an international network promoting and marketing European cinema globally.

Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
Polish Film Institute
Ukraine Film Office
Czech Film Center
НАЦИОНАЛЕН ФИЛМОВ ЦЕНТЪР
Bulgarian National Film Center
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar
Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Filmski centar Srbije
Film Center Serbia
Slovenský filmový ústav
Slovak Film Institute
Slovenski filmski center
Slovenian Film Centre
Культура.РФ
Managed by the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinema of Russia, the dedicated website for Russian culture includes not only information about Russian cinema, but also about museums, theater, traditions and a collection of lecture recordings concerning Russian culture, literature, and art.