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SOURCE: "Intolerance and the Soviets: A Historical Investigation," in I nside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema, edited by Richard Taylor and Ian Christie, Routledge, 1991, pp. 51-9.
In the following essay, Kepley evaluates the influence Intolerance had on early cinema in the Soviet Union.
Tracing lines of influence in film history is one of the most popular endeavours among film scholars; it is also one of the most treacherous. The appearance of similar styles or conventions among different schools of film often invites premature conclusions about direct lines of descent. The historian, therefore, must penetrate below such surface observations to identify the complexities and contradictions of historical continuity if we are truly to understand the links between one cinematic movement and another.
Historians agree that the most influential early film-maker was D. W. Griffith and that among his most precocious students were the Soviet...
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