Valentin Konstantinovich Turkin (; 6 February 1887 – 10 January 1958) was a

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findin ...

, and film theorist active in the Soviet Union.Youngblood p.90 Turkin was a founder of the

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, ...

Selected filmography

* '' The Tailor from Torzhok'' (1925) *'' The Stationmaster'' (1925) *'' The Girl with a Hatbox'' (1927) *'' The Ghost That Never Returns'' (1930)

References

Bibliography

* Youngblood, Denise. ''Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s''. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turkin, Valentin 1887 births 1958 deaths Soviet male screenwriters People from Novocherkassk Film theorists Soviet film critics Soviet screenwriters Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography