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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutchings, Stephen C.

Vernitski, Anat, 1969-

Series:

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 18.

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations.

Russian literature--Film adaptations.

Russian literature.

Motion pictures and literature--Soviet Union.

Motion pictures and literature.

Motion pictures and literature--Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation).

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Contents:

'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 H. 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 Scott Valentino

'Imperially, my dear Watson' : Sherlock Holmes and the decline of the Soviet empire / Catherine Theimer 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-218) and index.

ISBN:

0415306671

OCLC:

55625055