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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

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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
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

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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
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

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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
9/11 in American Culture

by Mary Weems, Henry A. Giroux, Douglas Kellner, Peter McLaren, Jack Z. Bratich, Arnold, Shepperson Tomaselli, Patricia Tacineto Clough, Michelle Fine, Joanne Robertson, Karen Staller, Greg Dimitriadis, Angharad N. Valdivia, Laurel Richardson, Heidi Marie Brush, Robert W. McChesney, Dierde Glenn Paul, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, Birgit Richard, Cameron McCarthy, Virginia Olesen, Cary Nelson, Kenneth J. Gergen, William L. Miller, Anton J. Kuzel, Mary Gergen, Kathy Charmaz, Davydd J. Greenwood, Shulamit Reinharz, Staceyann Chin, Lois Weis, Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, Ivan Brady, William G. Tierney, Gerardo R. Lopez, H.L Goodall Jr, Karen Scott-Hoy, Tracy K. Lewis, Patricia Geist Martin, James Joseph Scheurich, Dr. Christopher N. Poulos, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Stephen John Hartnett ...

Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is ... Read more

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In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is
... Read more
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

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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
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

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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
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

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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
Integrated disease management of wheat and barley

by Prof Beat Keller, Dr Caroline Moffat, Dr F. M. Santana, Dr A. K. Ruud, Dr M. Lillemo, Dr E. Hill, Dr P. Solomon, Dr J. L. N. Maciel, Dr Simon Ellwood, Dr Hugh Wallwork, R. F. Park, Dr Wolfgang Knogge, Dr R. J. Bryson, Dr H-D. Brix, Dr Lise Nistrup Jørgensen, Dr Thies Marten Heick, Dr Sambasivam Periyannan, Dr Lee Hickey, Dr Sadia Iqbal, Prof. Michael G. K. Jones, Dr A. Schouten, Dr Edward C. Rojas, Dr T. K. Turkington, Dr K. Xi, Dr H. R. Kutcher, Dr Hans J. L. Jørgensen, Dr Birgit Jensen, Prof David B. Collinge, Dr Stephen B. Goodwin, Dr Javier Sánchez-Martín, Dr Salim Bourras ...

Series Book 19 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Reviews key recent research on the main fungal diseases, their modes of infection and potential strategies for dealing with themSummarises the range of techniques for breeding more resistant varietiesAssesses ways to manage fungicide resistance and the range of methods in developing integrated disease management of cereals ... Read more

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Reviews key recent research on the main fungal diseases, their modes of infection and potential strategies for dealing with themSummarises the range of techniques for breeding more resistant varietiesAssesses ways to manage fungicide resistance and the range of methods in developing integrated disease management of cereals
... Read more

Directory of World Cinema: East Europe

Edited by Adam Bingham ...

Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave cinemas across Eastern Central Europe in the post ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave cinemas across Eastern Central Europe in the post
... Read more
Warped Mourning

Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

by Alexander Etkind ...

Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
"[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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"[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense
... Read more
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

$23.79 USD

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
The Red Screen

Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema

Edited by Anna Lawton ...

This original collection of essays encompasses seventy years of Soviet cinema from the perspective of twenty academics of different backgrounds and nationalities. The book highlights significant moments in the history of Soviet cinema, providing a challenging montage of detailed `close-ups'. This gives the reader a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of ... Read more

$55.99 USD

This original collection of essays encompasses seventy years of Soviet cinema from the perspective of twenty academics of different backgrounds and nationalities. The book highlights significant moments in the history of Soviet cinema, providing a challenging montage of detailed `close-ups'. This gives the reader a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of
... Read more

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