Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature 1900-2001
Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book 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 the consciousness of the Soviet people.
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Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book 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 the consciousness of the Soviet people.
Introduction : the ekranizatsiia in Russian culture1Pt. IFilm adaptations from the start to Stalin : manufacturing the myth251'Crime without punishment' : reworkings of nineteenth-century Russian literary sources in Evgenii Bauer's Child of the Big City272Educating Chapaev : from document to myth443Ada/opting the son : war and the authentication of power in Soviet screen versions of children's literature59Pt. IILiterature and film in the post-Stalin period : the myth in retreat734Adapting foreign classics : Kozintsev's Shakespeare755The sound of silence : from Grossman's Berdichev to Askol'dov's Commissar896Film adaptations of Aksenov : the young prose and the cinema of the Thaw1007Screening the short story : the films of Vasilii Shukshin116Pt. IIIRe-viewing Russia : myth and nation1338The Mikhalkov brothers' view of Russia1359Adapting the landscape : Oblomov's vision in film15310'Imperially, my dear Watson' : Sherlock Holmes and the decline of the Soviet empire164Pt. IVFrom text to screen, Soviet to post-Soviet : re-interpreting the myth17911'I love you, dear captive' : gender and narrative in versions of The Prisoner of the Caucasus18112Post-Soviet film adaptations of the Russian classics : tradition and innovation194
