A Companion to Russian Cinema E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: CNCZ - The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1445

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. 

• The most up-to-date and thorough coverage of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, which also effectively fills gaps in the existing scholarship in the field
• This is the first volume on Russian cinema to explore specifically the history of movie theatres, studios, and educational institutions
• The editor is one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies, and contributions come from leading experts in the field of Russian Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture
• Chapters consider the arts of scriptwriting, sound, production design, costumes and cinematography
• Provides five portraits of key figures in Soviet and Russia film history, whose works have been somewhat neglected

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration and References

Transliteration

References

Introduction

The Field

The Project and its Structure

References

Part I: Structures of Production, Formation, and Exhibition

1 The Film Palaces of Nevsky Prospect

References

2 (V)GIK and the History of Film Education in the Soviet Union, 1920s–1930s

Film Education in the Soviet Union

Foundational Years: 1919–1924: Striving for the Method and the Victory of the Academic Model

Centralization and Reorganization: 1924–1930

From GTK to (V)GIK (1930–1937)

References

3 Lenfilm

Vernacular Eccentricity

Heroic Romanticism

Avant-Garde as Tradition

Vernacular Postmodernism

Conclusion

References

4 The Adventures of the

Kulturfilm

in Soviet Russia

Cultural, Enlightening, Useful: The Elusive Film Classification

Kulturfilms

in the Soviet Studio Landscape

Creative Interpretations

The Death of the Concept

References

5 Soiuzdetfilm

The Creation of Soiuzdetfilm

Getting Inside the Child’s Head

Children Performing Children

Childhood, Difference, and Ideology

Donskoi’s Approach to Acting

Reception

Soiuzdetfilm: Setting Generic Models

References

Part II: For the State or For the Audience? Auteurism, Genre, and Global Markets

6 The Stalinist Musical

References

7 Soviet Film Comedy of the 1950s and 1960s

References

8

Auteur

Cinema during the Thaw and Stagnation

Toward the Idea of a Director as an “Auteur”

The Tolerated Margin

The Individual and the Collective

Cinema in a Logo-Centric System

The Unbearable Sadness of Life

The Persistent Point of View

Metacinema

The Forgotten Audience

The Fresh Breeze of Perestroika

References

9 The

Blokbaster

Goodbye America, Hello Hollywood: The Rise of the Russian Blockbuster in the Late 1990s

Lovey Dovey

: Importing the American Dream

From Blockbusters to

Blokbusters

: Russifying Content

Conclusion

References

10 The Global and the National in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema (2004–2012)

Research Methods

Results of Research

References

Part III: Sound – Image – Text

11 The Literary Scenario and the Soviet Screenwriting Tradition

The Iron Scenario and the Emotional Scenario

The Establishment of the Literary Scenario

The Implications of the Literary Scenario

Conclusion

References

12 Ideology, Technology, Aesthetics

Introduction

Initial Explorations

The Importance of Color Processes Pioneered Abroad

Critical Reception of Early Soviet Color Films

Conclusion

References

13 Learning to Speak Soviet

Machines Speaking to Machines

Multi-Lingualism, or the Problem of Language in Soviet Cinema

References

14 Cinema and the Art of Being

Set Design: The Scholarly Field

The Russian Context: Background and Practicalities

The Soviet Designers

In Search of the Soviet Interior

References

15 Stars on Screen and Red Carpet

References

16 Revenge of the Cameramen