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.
Author(s): Stephen Hutchings, Anat Vernitskaia
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 256
BookCover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of plates......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction: The ekranizatsiia in Russian culture......Page 15
Part I Film adaptations from the start to Stalin......Page 37
1 ‘Crime without punishment’......Page 39
2 Educating Chapaev......Page 55
3 Ada/opting the Son......Page 69
Part II Literature and film in the post-Stalin period......Page 81
4 Adapting foreign classics......Page 83
5 The sound of silence......Page 95
6 Film adaptations of Aksenov......Page 105
7 Screening the short story......Page 120
Part III Re-viewing Russia......Page 135
8 The Mikhalkov brothers’ view of Russia......Page 137
9 Adapting the landscape......Page 154
10 ‘Imperially, my dear Watson’......Page 164
Part IV From text to screen, Soviet to post-Soviet......Page 178
11 ‘I love you, dear captive’......Page 180
12 Post-Soviet film adaptations of the Russian classics......Page 192
Bibliography......Page 203
Index......Page 215
