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  • The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991

    An Uneasy Legacy

    by Peter Rollberg ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon. The author’s analysis places leading directors—Shaken Aimanov, Abdulla Karsakbaev, Sultan-Akhmet Khodzhikov, Mazhit Begalin—in their sociopolitical and cultural context. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Nazarbayev Generation

    Youth in Kazakhstan

    by Aziz Burkhanov, Ulan Bigozhin, Douglas Blum, Reuel R. Hanks, Sabina Insebayeva, Azamat K. Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Karlygash Kabatova, Daniyar Kosnazarov, Diana T. Kudaibergenova, Nazgul Mingisheva, Zhanar Nagayeva, Dina Sharipova, Galym Zhussipbek, Peter Rollberg, Rico Isaacs, Alexandra Tsay ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    This social and cultural analysis provides a new understanding of Kazakhstan’s younger generations that emerged during the rule of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been presiding over Kazakhstan for the thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Half of Kazakhstan’s population was born after he took power and have no direct memory of the Soviet regime. Since the early 2000s, they have lived ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema

    by Peter Rollberg ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Russian and Soviet cinema occupies a unique place in the history of world cinema. Legendary filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Sergei Paradjanov have created oeuvres that are being screened and studied all over the world. The Soviet film industry was different from others because its main criterion of success was not profit, but the ... Read more

    $210.99 USD

  • Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World

    Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism

    by Marlene Laruelle, Marlene Laruelle, Peter Rollberg, Peter Rollberg, Andreas Umland, Tudor Vlad, Lee B. Becker, Jack Snyder, Maria Lipman, Jonathan Becker, Marta Dyczok0, Oleg Manaev1, Barbara Junisbai2, Azamat Junisbai3, Nicola Ying Fry4, Kornely Kakachia5, Tamara Pataraia6, Michael Cecire7, Elisabeth Schimpfossl8, Ilya Yablokov9, Sarah Oates0, Luca Anceschi1, Abdulfattoh Shafiev2, Marintha Miles3, Olena Nikolayenko4, Navbahor Imamova5 ...
    Series Book 178 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

    by Jonathan Gill ...
    This true story of Golden Age Hollywood and Cold War espionage is a "captivating, fast-paced narrative [that] reads like a thriller" ( Library Journal).Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Magical Chorus

    by Solomon Volkov ...
    Translated by Antonina Bouis ...
    From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross

    by Lyudmila Boyadzhieva ...
    Andrei Tarkovsky died in a Paris hospital in 1986, aged just 54. An internationally acclaimed icon of the film industry, the legacy Tarkovsky left for his fans included Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Nostalgia and a host of other brilliant works. In the Soviet Union, however, Tarkovsky was a persona non grata. Longing to be accepted in his homeland, Tarkovsky distanced himself from all forms of political ... Read more

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  • Krzysztof Kieślowski

    Interviews

    Edited by Renata Bernard, Steven Woodward ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Krzysztof Kieślowski’s untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe’s most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died.Kieślowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Mandelstam

    by Oleg Lekmanov, Tatiana Retivov ...
    Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanovs critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian poets life and work to a wider audience and includes the most reliable details of the poets life, which were recently found and released from the KGB archives. Through his engaging narrative, Lekmanov carries the reader through Mandelstams early life and education in pre ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Composing for the Red Screen

    Prokofiev and Soviet Film

    by Kevin Bartig ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arguably more people heard his film music than his efforts in all other genres combined. Films for which Prokofiev composed, ... Read more

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  • 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