Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image

ISBN-13: 9780415546157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 244 str.

Hutchings Stephen

Opis

An examination of how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the visual era, beginning with the advent of photography. It also highlights how literature was used as a tool of the totalitarian regime during the Soviet period and how, post-communism, Russia is adapting to global television.

Spis treści

Part 1 The Impact of Photography on Nineteenth Century Russian Fiction 1. In the Beginning was the Word
2. Realism and the Camera: Out from under Gogol's Portret 3. Mediation and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Russian Fiction Part 2 Literature, the Camera and the Shaping of a Soviet Official Sphere 4. The Word in Lights: The Soviet Writer as Media Star 5. Shooting the Canon: The Role of the Ekranizatsiia in Offical Stalinist Culture 6. The Canon under Fire: Film Adaptation at the Margins of Soviet State Ideology 7. Hamlet with a Guitar: Literature, Film and the Problem of Soviet Mass Cuture Conclusion: Literature and Post Soviet Identity in the Era of Global Television

O autorze

Stephen Hutchings is Reader in Russian at the University of Surrey. He was formally Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Rochester, New York. He has published books on Leonid Andreev and on Russian modernist prose. He is currently grant-holder for a 3-year AHRB-funded project looking at post-Soviet television culture.