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Basees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies: Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001 : Screening the Word by Anat Vernitskaia (2005, Hardcover)

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Russian And Soviet Film Adaptations Of Literature, 1 : Screening The Word, Hardcover by Hutchings, Stephen C. (EDT); Vernitski, Anat (EDT), ISBN 0415306671, ISBN-13 9780415306676, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 public consciousness.

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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415306671

ISBN-139780415306676

eBay Product ID (ePID)30871272

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRussian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001 : Screening the Word

SubjectFilm / General, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Literary Collections, History

AuthorAnat Vernitskaia

SeriesBasees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.7 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2004-013383

Reviews'While each article addresses different theoretical approaches, and strives to answer dissimilar questions, they are unified by the book's mission, and the collection as a whole manages to create an illuminating overall picture of the development of Russian/Soviet/post-Sovietekranizatsii...This collection is a perceptive overview and agreat reference book--for the curious general reader as well as for the specialist--which can be used as a textbook for a course on Russian literature and cinema, as an insightful addition to a course on Socialist Realism, or as a source for anyone interested in Soviet and Post-Soviet culture."-Slavic and East European Journal, 50.2 (Summer 2006) 'This volume contains thorough studies, which in their entirety do justice to the editor's claim of providing a general overview, as set out in the introduction.' - MLR, 102.1, 2007 'The contributors develop useful paradigms for every decade and illustrate them with examples. These ten pages alone represent a comprehensive history of film adaptions, which illustrates the complex interaction between ideological premisses and a reassessment of the great writers of Russian and Soviet literature, as well as world literature.'- Christine Engel, University of Innsbruck, 'While each article addresses different theoretical approaches, and strives to answer dissimilar questions, they are unified by the book's mission, and the collection as a whole manages to create an illuminating overall picture of the development of Russian/Soviet/post-Soviet ekranizatsii...This collection is a perceptive overview and a great reference book--for the curious general reader as well as for the specialist--which can be used as a textbook for a course on Russian literature and cinema, as an insightful addition to a course on Socialist Realism, or as a source for anyone interested in Soviet and Post-Soviet culture."-Slavic and East European Journal, 50.2 (Summer 2006) 'This volume contains thorough studies, which in their entirety do justice to the editor's claim of providing a general overview, as set out in the introduction.' - MLR, 102.1, 2007 'The contributors develop useful paradigms for every decade and illustrate them with examples. These ten pages alone represent a comprehensive history of film adaptions, which illustrates the complex interaction between ideological premisses and a reassessment of the great writers of Russian and Soviet literature, as well as world literature.' - Christine Engel, University of Innsbruck

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume NumberVol. 18

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.436

Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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

SynopsisProviding many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, 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.

LC Classification NumberPN1997.85.F437 2004