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The Russian Cinema Reader, Volume 2
Rimgaila . Ed(S): Salys
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Paperback. Editor(s): Salys, Rimgaila. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
This reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema or Russian culture through film. It consists of excerpts from English language criticism and translations of excerpts of Russian-language criticism, as well as commissioned essays on thirty subtitled films widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement will be chronological, from Sten’ka Razin through How I Ended This Summer, with a general introduction to each period outlining its filmic and historical significance for a general audience. Essays will be accompanied by suggestions for further reading. This reader will be useful ... Read more
This reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema or Russian culture through film. It consists of excerpts from English language criticism and translations of excerpts of Russian-language criticism, as well as commissioned essays on thirty subtitled films widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement will be chronological, from Sten’ka Razin through How I Ended This Summer, with a general introduction to each period outlining its filmic and historical significance for a general audience. Essays will be accompanied by suggestions for further reading. This reader will be useful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Syllabus
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618113214
SKU
V9781618113214
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About Rimgaila . Ed(S): Salys
Rimgaila Salys (PhD Harvard University) is professor of Russian studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. She is a specialist in twentieth-century Russian literature, culture and film, and the author of books on Leonid Pasternak and Yuri Olesha, and has edited the memoirs of Josephine Pasternak. Her most recent book is Laughing Matters: The Musical Comedy Films of ... Read more
Reviews for The Russian Cinema Reader, Volume 2
“[U]ndergraduate students of Russian cinema will no doubt find the Readers useful, and the books also have much to offer the general reader, not least the fact that they situate the films they discuss firmly within the specific socio-ideological and cultural contexts from which they emerged.” - Slavonic and East European Review, 93, 4, October 2015