Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001 (eBook, PDF)

Screening the Word
Redaktion: Hutchings, Stephen; Vernitskaia, Anat

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of the communist regime on the consciousness of the Soviet people. The book provides many interesting case studies and brings together many leading authorities on the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134400584
• Artikelnr.: 42636039

Autorenporträt

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian at the University of Surrey. Recipient of two large AHRB grants and author of monographs on Leonid Andreev, Russian Modernism, and Russian literature's relationship with the camera, he is currently researching post-Soviet television culture. Anat Vernitski is Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She published on twentieth-century Russian literature and on cultural representations of Orthodox Christianity. She is currently researching Russian émigré literature of the 1920s and 1930s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Importance of the Ekranizatsiia in 20th Century Russian
and Soviet Culture Part 1 Soviet Film Adaptations under Lenin and Stalin:
Manufacturing the Myth 1. Popular Literature in Film Adaptations of the NEP
Period 2. Moving Images and Eye-deologies: Visuality and the Political in
the Soviet Screen Adaptation of Literature 3. National Historical
Mythologies on the Soviet Screen: The Film Version of Tolstoy's 'Peter the
Great' Part 2 Literature and Film in the Post-Stalin Era: The Myth in
Retreat 4. Unauthor-ized Copies: The Image of the Writer in the Post-Stalin
Film Adaptation 5. Kozintsev's Film Adaptations of Shakespeare 6. Aksenov:
Young Prose and the Cinema of the Thaw 7. Pushkin's 'Arap Petra Pervogo'
and its Film Adaptation 8. The Writer as Director in Late Soviet Russia:
Vasilii Shukshin Part 3 From Text to Screen, Soviet to Post-Soviet:
Re-viewing the Russian National Myth 9. Imperially My Dear Watson: The
Sherlock Holmes Series and the Decline of the Soviet Empire 10. Official
versus Dissent: The Mikhalkov Brothers' View of Russia's Past 11. 'I Love
You Dear Captive': Gender, Narrative and Chronotope in The Screened
Caucasus Tale 12. Re-reading/Re-viewing Dostoevskii in the Post-Soviet Era:
The Challenge of the Spiritual