Russian literary culture in the camera age : the word as image

Russian literary culture in the camera age : the word as image / Stephen Hutchings.

"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 durin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hutchings, Stephen C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Series:BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 14.
Subjects:
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Ekphrasis.
Literature and photography.
Motion pictures and literature.
Television and literature.
ekphrasis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Ekphrasis
Literature and photography
Motion pictures and literature
Russian literature
Television and literature
Russisch
Literatur
Wort > Motiv
Fotografie
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Russian realism and the camera : out from under Gogol's 'portrait'
  • Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject : the camera as midwife to modernity
  • Photographic eye as poetic I : dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto project
  • The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word
  • Shooting the canon : ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture
  • Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia : the official sphere unravels
  • Hamlet with a guitar : the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon
  • Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Westernness
  • In place of a conclusion : television, the end of literature and Pelevin's generation 'P'.

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