Border Crossing: Russian Literature Into Film

ISBN-13: 9781474411424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str.

Alexander Burry; Frederick H. White

Opis

Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments.

Spis treści

Introduction: Filming Russian Classics: Challenges and Opportunities, Alexander Burry; Passport Control: Across the Russian Border, Thomas Leitch; White Nights (1844): Dostoevsky’s White Nights: The Dreamer Goes Abroad, Ronald Meyer; Crime and Punishment (1866): On Not Showing Dostoevsky: Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket, Olga Hasty; Stealing the Scene: Crime as Confession in Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket, S. Ceilidh Orr; Anna Karenina (1878): The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly, Yuri Leving; Ward No. 6 (1892): A Vicious Circle: Karen Shakhnazarov’s Ward no. 6, Alexander Burry; He Who Gets Slapped (1915): A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences, Frederick H. White; Lieutenant Kijé (1928): Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod)Poruchik Kizhe, Alastair Renfrew; The Twelve Chairs (1928): Chasing the Wealth: The Americanization of Il’f and Petrov’s The Twelve Chairs, Robert Mulcahy; Despair (1936): Fassbinder’s Nabokov: From text to action!, Dennis Ioffe; Ticket to the Stars (1961): The Soviet Abroad (That We Lost), Otto Boele; Conclusion: Passport Control: Departing on a Cinematic Journey, Frederick H. White