A. Room

Pamphlet is about life and career of Abram Room, Russian film director. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and winner of the Stalin Prize. Room's best known films are "Bed and Sofa" and "The Ghost that Never Returns". Written by Victor Shklovsky, Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism. Constructivist cover. Pamphlet contains photographs from movies. Fair condition, rubbings, tear and losses of paper on the top and bottom of the spine, pen handwriting and cancelled library stamp on the back cover, some pages 5-12 are trimmed. Rusty staples. 16 pages.