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Harry Allan Potamkin (1900-1933) was an American film critic.

Biography

On his 1925 honeymoon to France, Potamkin discovered film in Paris and was inspired to become a film critic.^[1] Potamkin returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1927.^[2] In 1930, Potamkin traveled to Kharkov for the second Congress of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers, in the American delegation along with Joshua Kunitz, William Gropper, and other members of the John Reed Clubs.^[3] He proposed a plan for a Marxist film school and library, which was never realized due to his death in 1933.^[4]

References

^ Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier, eds. (2008). The Cult Film Reader. Open University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780335219230.
^ Andrew, Dudley; Jacobs, Lewis (21/1979). "The Compound Cinema: Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 37 (3): 387. doi:10.2307/430811. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Homberger, Eric (1986). American writers and radical politics, 1900-39 : Equivocal commitments. Macmillan. p. 132. ISBN 0333391764.
^ Hagener, Malte; Zimmermann, Yvonne, eds. (2023-11-27). How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses. Amsterdam University Press. p. 182. doi:10.2307/jj.14170605.10.. ISBN 978-90-485-5457-7. {{cite book}}: Check |doi= value (help)

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[1] Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier, eds. (2008). The Cult Film Reader. Open University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780335219230.

[2] Andrew, Dudley; Jacobs, Lewis (21/1979). "The Compound Cinema: Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 37 (3): 387. doi:10.2307/430811. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[3] Homberger, Eric (1986). American writers and radical politics, 1900-39 : Equivocal commitments. Macmillan. p. 132. ISBN 0333391764.

[4] Hagener, Malte; Zimmermann, Yvonne, eds. (2023-11-27). How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses. Amsterdam University Press. p. 182. doi:10.2307/jj.14170605.10.. ISBN 978-90-485-5457-7. {{cite book}}: Check |doi= value (help)

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