Inside Film: Russian Cinema Paperback - 2007
by Gillespie, David
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Details
- Title Inside Film: Russian Cinema
- Author Gillespie, David
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 212
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Longman, White Plains, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2007
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8689696
- ISBN 9780582437906 / 0582437903
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.22 x 0.4 in (23.57 x 15.80 x 1.02 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Soviet Union - History, Motion pictures - Russia (Federation) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002022859
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
From the publisher
From the rear cover
"Russian Cinema" provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov, Paradzhanov, Sokurov and others.
The background section assesses the contribution of visual art and music, especially the work of the composers Shostakovich and Prokofev, to Russian cinema. Subsequent chapters explore a variety of topics:
* The literary space - the cinematic rendering of the literary text, from 'Sovietized' versions to bolder and more innovative interpretations, as well as adaptations of foreign classics
* The Russian film comedy looks at this perennially popular genre over the decades, from the 'domestication' of laughter under Stalin to the emergence of satire
* The historical film - how history has been used in film to affirm prevailing ideological norms, from "October "to "Taurus"
* Women and Russian film discusses some of the female stars of the Soviet screen (Liubov Orlova, Vera Alentova, Liudmila Gurchenko), as well as films made by male and female directors, such as Askoldov and Kira Muratova
* Film and ideology shows why ideology was an essential component of Soviet films such as "The Maxim Trilogy," and how it was later definitively rejected
* The Russian war film looks at Civil War and Second World War films, and the post-Soviet treatment of recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya
* Private life and public morality explores the evolution of melodramas about youth angst, town and village life, personal relationships, and the emergence of the dominant sub-genre of the 1990s, the gangster thriller
* Autobiography, memory and identity offers a close reading of the work of Andrei Tarkovskii, Russia's greatest post-war director, whose films, including "Andrei Rublev" and "Mirror," place him among the foremost European "auteur" film-makers
"Russian Cinema" offers a close analysis of over 300 films illustrated with representative stills throughout. As with other titles in the "Inside Film" series it includes comprehensive filmographies, a thorough bibliography and an annotated further reading list. The book is a jargon-free, accessible study that will be of interest to undergraduates of film studies, modern languages, Russian language and literature, as well as cineastes, film teachers and researchers.
Dr David Gillespie is Reader in Russian in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath.
Series Editor - Alexander Ballinger, McLean Film & Media Ltd.
Cover Image: Ignat Daniltsev in "Mirror "(Andrei Tarkovskii, 1974) reproduced with kind permission of Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
