
Ruptures and continuities in Soviet/Russian cinema : styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR
Ruptures and continuities in Soviet/Russian cinema
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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Omfang | xiii, 226 sider : illustrasjoner
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Opplysninger | Først utgitt i 2018. - Re-construction, or Perestroika: re-visioning, re-making, re-framing -- Perestroika and parallel cinema -- Soviet comedies for our time: cinematic remaking in 21st-century Russia -- The journey of a film: Aleksei Gherman's Hard to be a God, 1968-2013 -- Waiting for change: Sergei Solovev and the dreams of the young generation -- The prostitute as everywoman: the role and evolution of the sex worker in Russian cinema -- Thank God we're not alive: the rock star in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema -- Neither here, nor there: the trickster in the cinema of Perestroika and the early 1990s -- We'll meet in Tahiti: the traveller between East and West in Russian films of the 1990s -- Reality excess: Chernukha cinema in the late 1990s -- A genre in crisis? Satirical comedy during Perestroika -- Articulating dissonance between man and the cosmos: Soviet scientific fantasy in the 1980s and its legacy -- Revising history, remaking heroes: Soviet-Russian cinema and the Civil War.. - "This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that, whereas genres shifted and characters developed, stylistic choices remained largely unaffected"--
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Emner | Motion pictures - History. - Russia (Federation)
Motion pictures - History. - Soviet Union Film Russland Sovjetunionen historie |
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ISBN | 9780367876579
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