Russian and Soviet Film adaptations of literature, 1900-2001 : screening the word
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Russian and Soviet Film adaptations of literature, 1900-2001 : screening the word
（BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies / series editor, Richard Sakwa, 18）
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 'Crime without punishment' : re-workings of nineteenth-century Russian literary sources in Evgenii Bauer's Child of the big city / Rachel Morley
- Educating Chapaev : from document to myth / Jeremy Hicks
- Ada/opting the son : war and the authentication of power in Soviet screen versions of children's literature / Stephen Hutchings
- Adapting foreign classics : Kozintsev's Shakespeare / David Gillespie
- The sound of silence : from Grossman's Berdichev to Askolʹdov's Commissar / Graham Roberts
- Film adaptations of Aksenov : the young prose and the cinema of the thaw / Julian Graffy
- Screening the short story : the films of Vasilii Shukshin / John Givens
- The Mikhalkov brothers' view of Russia / Birgit Beumers
- Adapting the landscape : Oblomov's vision in film / Russell Valentino
- 'Imperially, my dear Watson' : Sherlock Holmes and the decline of the Soviet empire / Catherine Nepomnyashchy
- 'I love you, dear captive' : gender and narrative in versions of the Prisoner of the Caucasus / Joe Andrew
- Post-Soviet adaptations of the Russian classics : tradition and innovation / Anat Vernitski
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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