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Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature 1900-2001 »

Authors: Stephen Hutchings
ISBN-13: 9780415546126, ISBN-10: 0415546125
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Stephen Hutchings

Book Synopsis

Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book 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 the consciousness of the Soviet people.

	Introduction : the ekranizatsiia in Russian culture	1
Pt. I	Film adaptations from the start to Stalin : manufacturing the myth	25
1	'Crime without punishment' : reworkings of nineteenth-century Russian literary sources in Evgenii Bauer's Child of the Big City	27
2	Educating Chapaev : from document to myth	44
3	Ada/opting the son : war and the authentication of power in Soviet screen versions of children's literature	59
Pt. II	Literature and film in the post-Stalin period : the myth in retreat	73
4	Adapting foreign classics : Kozintsev's Shakespeare	75
5	The sound of silence : from Grossman's Berdichev to Askol'dov's Commissar	89
6	Film adaptations of Aksenov : the young prose and the cinema of the Thaw	100
7	Screening the short story : the films of Vasilii Shukshin	116
Pt. III	Re-viewing Russia : myth and nation	133
8	The Mikhalkov brothers' view of Russia	135
9	Adapting the landscape : Oblomov's vision in film	153
10	'Imperially, my dear Watson' : Sherlock Holmes and the decline of the Soviet empire	164
Pt. IV	From text to screen, Soviet to post-Soviet : re-interpreting the myth	179
11	'I love you, dear captive' : gender and narrative in versions of The Prisoner of the Caucasus	181
12	Post-Soviet film adaptations of the Russian classics : tradition and innovation	194