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Subject(s)

• Russian literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ekphrasis [Browse]
• Literature and photography [Browse]
• Motion pictures and literature [Browse]
• Television and literature [Browse]
• Culture in motion pictures [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 14. [More in this series]
• BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 14 [More in this series]

Summary note

This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet period, and concluding with an examination of post-Soviet Russia's encounter with global television. As well as pioneering the exploration of this important new area in Slavic Studies, the book illuminates aspects of cultural theory by investigating how the Russian case affects general notions of liter

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-220) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Russian Literary Culturein the Camera Age; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction - the scope of the task: in the beginning was the word; PART I The photographic word; 1 Russian realism and the camera: out from under Gogol's 'Portrait'; 2 Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject: the camera as midwife to modernity; 3 Photographic eye as poetic I: dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto project; PART II Literature, the camera and the shaping of a Soviet official sphere
• 4 The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word5 Shooting the canon: ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture; 6 Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia: the official sphere unravels; 7 Hamlet with a guitar: the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon; PART III Televising the word; 8 Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Westernness; 9 In place of a conclusion: television, the end of literature and Pelevin's Generation 'P'; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-40050-0
• 1-134-40051-9
• 1-280-11540-8
• 0-203-42679-7

OCLC

• 437080167
• 57470733

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203426791

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