Leonid Andreev and Russian cinema in 1900–1910s
Abstract
The article focuses on Leonid Andreev’s scripts and screen versions of his works of the 1910s. L. Andreev was one of the first Russian classical writers who could recognize the art of cinema in the earliest films. That was the point of many of his interviews and articles including his famous “Letters on the Theatre” (1912–1914). Despite the fact that his own scripts were often unsuccessful (especially in comparison with screen versions of L. Andreev’s works that were created without his help or collaboration), the language of cinema was not alien to L. Andreev. On the contrary, his prose and his dramaturgy of “panpsychism” are cinematographic indeed but they correlate with talking pictures, not with cinema of the 1910s. The article proposes an idea that in L. Andreev’s classical works one can find peculiarities of screenwriting genre.
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Leonid Andreev, pre-revolutionary cinema, script, dramaturgy of “panpsychism”, screen version
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