The Russian Cinema Reader (Volume II): Volume II, The Thaw to the Present

Published by Academic Studies Press 2013

The Russian Cinema Reader (Volume II)

Volume II, The Thaw to the Present

Edited by: Rimgaila Salys

In the series Cultural Syllabus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618113764

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About this book

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, Stalinist Cinema, Cinema of the Thaw, Cinema of Stagnation, Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema) outline its cinematic significance and provide historical context for the non-specialist reader. Essays are accompanied by suggestions for further reading. The reader will be useful both for film studies specialists and for Slavists who wish to broaden their Russian Studies curriculum by incorporating film courses or culture courses with cinematic material. Volumes one and two may be ordered separately to accommodate the timeframe and contents of courses. Volume one films: Sten’ka Razin, The Cameraman’s Revenge, The Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter, Child of the Big City, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Battleship Potemkin, Bed and Sofa, Man with a Movie Camera, Earth, Chapaev, Circus, Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II. Volume two films: The Cranes are Flying, Ballad of a Soldier, Lenin’s Guard, Wings, Commissar, The Diamond Arm, White Sun of the Desert, Solaris, Stalker, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Repentance, Little Vera, Burnt by the Sun, Brother, Russian Ark, The Return, Night Watch, The Tuner, Ninth Company, How I Ended This Summer. Contributors: Birgit Beumers, Robert Bird, David Bordwell, Mikhail Brashinsky, Oksana Bulgakova, Gregory Carlson, Nancy Condee, Julian Graffy, Jeremy Hicks, Andrew Horton, Steven Hutchings, Vida Johnson, Lilya Kaganovsky, Vance Kepley, Jr., Susan Larsen, Mark Lipovetsky, Tatiana Mikhailova, Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Joan Neuberger, Vlada Petrić, Graham Petrie, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys, Elena Stishova, Vlad Strukov, Yuri Tsivian, Meghan Vicks, Josephine Woll, Denise J. Youngblood

Author / Editor information

Salys Rimgaila :

Rimgaila Salys is Professor Emerita of Russian Program at the University of Colorado Boulder and an expert in twentieth century Russian literature, film, and culture.Rimgaila Salys (PhD Harvard University) is professor of Russian studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 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 Grigorii Aleksandrov (Intellect Press and NLO).

Reviews

Rachel Morley, UCL SSEES:
“[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.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Preface Rimgaila Salys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
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Part Four
Cinema of the Thaw 1953-1967 Alexander Prokhorov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
The Cranes are Flying/Letiat zhuravli
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Reconfiguring the War and Family Tropes in Thaw-Era Homefront Melodrama Alexander Prokhorov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Ballad of a Soldier/Ballada o soldate Vida Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Lenin’s Guard/Zastava Il’icha Alexander Prokhorov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Wings/Kryl’ia
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Flight Without Wings: The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit’ko’s Wings Tatiana Mikhailova and Mark Lipovetsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Commissar/Komissar
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Soviet Structuring Myths in The Commissar Elena Monastireva-Ansdell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Part Five
Cinema of Stagnation Late 1960s-1985 Elena Prokhorova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
The Diamond Arm/Brilliantovaia ruka Alexander Prokhorov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
White Sun of the Desert/Beloe solntse pustyni
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We Have Been Sitting Here for a Long Time Rimgaila Salys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Solaris/Soliaris Robert Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Stalker
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Stalker Vida T. Johnson and Graham Petrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Elements of Cinema Robert Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears/Moskva slezam ne verit
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The Cultural Logic of Late Socialism Lilya Kaganovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part Six
Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema 1985-2000s Vida Johnson and Elena Stishova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Repentance/Monanieba (georgian); Pokaianie (russian)
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Signs and Symbols: Repentance’s Stylistic Devices Josephine Woll and Denise J. Youngblood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Little Vera/Malen’kaia Vera
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Between Joy and Suicide: Fathers, Daughters, and Little Vera Andrew Horton and Mikhail Brashinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Burnt by the Sun/Utomlennye solntsem
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Burnt by the Sun Birgit Beumers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Burnt by the Sun Susan Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Brother/Brat
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Brother Birgit Beumers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Russian Ark/Russkii kovcheg Robert Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
The Return/Vozvrashchenie
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Tarkovsky’s Return, or Zviagintsev’s Vozvrashchenie Birgit Beumers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Arrested Returns Meghan Vicks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Night Watch/Nochnoi dozor Vlad Strukov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
The Tuner/Nastroishchik Nancy Condee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Ninth Company/Deviataia rota Gregory Carleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
How I Ended This Summer/Kak ia provel etim letom Vlad Strukov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 310
Keywords: film; cinema; Soviet; Russia; Eastern Europe; movies; motion pictures; history; art; analysis; culture; aesthetics; silent film; Russian Thaw; Stalin; Early Russian; Soviet Silent; Cinema of the Thaw; Stagnation; Perestroika; Post-Soviet; cinematic significance; historical; cultural context; socio-ideological

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Published: November 15, 2013
ISBN: 9781618113764