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

ISBN-13: 9780415546126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str.

Hutchings Stephen

Opis

Providing 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.