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  • Cinema in Central Asia

    Rewriting Cultural Histories

    Edited by Michael Rouland, Gulnara Abikeyeva, Birgit Beumers ...
    Series series KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
    Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, this companion to the cinema of the region combines serious scholarly study with practical accessibility to construct an ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Nudity and the Body in Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Birgit Beumers, Catherine Géry, Eugénie Zvonkine ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book explores evocations of and allusions to sexual desire in Soviet cinema, 1919–1991.By deploying several lines of investigation – from the cult of the masculine, strong body in Stalinist cinema to the shifting signification of the naked body (male and female) in post-war cinema and to the display of a sexualised body in the late Soviet era – this book establishes the extent to which Soviet ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Fedor Bondarchuk: 'Stalingrad'

    by Stephen Norris, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.This KinoSputnik about Fedor Bondarchuk's megahit Stalingrad (2013) examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Andrei Tarkovsky: 'Ivan's Childhood'

    by Robert Efird, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing. This KinoSputnik on Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature Ivan's Childhood examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Aleksei Balabanov: 'Brother'

    by Ira Osterberg, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.Ira Österberg's KinoSputnik on Aleksei Balabanov's cult film Brother (1997) examines the production history, context and reception of the film, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Russia on Reels

    The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema

    by Birgit Beumers ...
    Series series KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
    This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s. It introduces readers to the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema, offers close studies of the work of filmmakers like Sokurov, Muratova and Astrakhan, reviews the Russian film industry in a period of massive economic transformation, and assesses cinema's function as a definer of Russia's new ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Performing Violence

    Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

    by Birgit Beumers, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Aleksandr Askoldov

    The Commissar

    by Marat Grinberg, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Filmed in 1966 and ’67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, it tells of a female Red Army commissar who is forced to stay with a Jewish family near the frontlines of the battle between the Red and White Armies as she waits to give birth. The film drew the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sergei Paradjanov

    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    by Joshua First, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema – yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release.This book is the first full-length companion to the film. In addition to a synopsis of the plot and a close ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Aleksandr Sokurov

    Russian Ark

    by Birgit Beumers, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de Custine as he wandered through the vast Winter Palace in St. Petersburg – and through three hundred years of Russian history.This companion to Russian Ark addresses all key aspects of the film, beginning ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema

    Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR

    Edited by Birgit Beumers, Eugenie Zvonkine ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Russia's New Fin de Siècle

    Contemporary Culture between Past and Present

    Edited by Birgit Beumers ...
    Russia's New Fin de Siècle brings together a range of texts on contemporary Russian culture – literary, cinematic and popular – as artists and writers try to situate themselves within the traditional frameworks of past and present, East and West, but also challenge established markers of identity. Investigating Russian culture at the turn of the 21st century, scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia ... Read more

    $23.99 USD