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

Publication Info. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 18
BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 18.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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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Subject Film adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Russian literature -- Film adaptations.
Russian literature -- Film adaptations.
Motion pictures and literature -- Soviet Union.
Motion pictures and literature.
Soviet Union.
Motion pictures and literature -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Film adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Hutchings, Stephen C.
Vernitski, Anat, 1969-
Other Form: Print version: Russian and Soviet film adaptations of literature, 1900-2001. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005 0415306671 (DLC) 2004013383 (OCoLC)55625055
ISBN 020301104X (electronic book)
9780203011041 (electronic book)
0415306671 (Cloth)