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  • Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s

    Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Stagnation Decay

    Edited by Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book explores a new character archetype that permeated Soviet film during what became known as the era of Stagnation, a stark period of loneliness, disappointment, and individual despair. This new type of character was neither negative nor positive, but nevertheless systematically undermined Soviet norms of behaviour, hairstyle, dress, lifestyle, and perspective, in stark contrast to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy

    by Olga Burenina-Petrova, Irina Evdokimova, Ida Day, Norbert Francis, Tim Harte, Mark Konecny, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Christina Lodder, Natalia Murray, Mary A. Nicholas, Michael Eskin0, Margarita Marinova1, Dr. or Professor Slav Gratchev2 ...
    The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnectedness of its artists ... Read more

    $99.69 USD

  • Women in Soviet Film

    The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods

    Edited by Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book illuminates and explores the representation of women in Soviet cinema from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the 1970s, a period when Soviet culture shifted away, to varying degrees, from the well-established conventions of socialist realism. Covering films about working class women, rural and urban women, and women from the intelligentsia, it probes various cinematic genres ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After 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 justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Read more

    $24.59 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

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

  • The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

    Figures of Paradox

    by Jeremi Szaniawski ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films (broaching many of his documentaries in the process), this volume unearths a ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

    by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova ...
    Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Police Aesthetics

    Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times

    by Cristina Vatulescu ...
    The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas

    Edited by Anikó Imre ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film culturesFeatures consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Inside the Film Factory

    New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Ian Christie, Professor Richard Taylor, Richard Taylor ...
    This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital task of scrutinising Soviet film, and re-examining the Cold War assumptions of traditional ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Seeking the Truth: Nikita Mikhalkov and the Russian Dilemma

    by Vladimir Osherov ...
    Russia is a European nation by virtue of geography, race, and culture. Regardless, for over three centuries, first under the Czars, then under Communists, Russia and Russian people have been subjected to an unending campaign for "Europeanization". As a result, Russian culture produced some of the best writers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers in the world. Suffice to mention L.Tolstoy, F. ... Read more

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