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Russian and Soviet film adaptations of literature, 1900-2001 : screening the word / edited by Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski

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London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
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1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : illustrations
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Hutchings, Stephen C. and Vernitski, Anat, 1969-
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'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.
Summary
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 public consciousness.
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020301104X (electronic bk.)
9780203011041 (electronic bk.)
9786610289479
6610289476
9780415306676
0415306671
0415306671 (Cloth)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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