Beumers - A Companion to Russian Cinema

1. Chapter 10

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 03
3. Chapter 04
4. Chapter 05
5. Chapter 06
6. Chapter 07
7. Chapter 08
8. Chapter 09
9. Chapter 10
10. Chapter 12
11. Chapter 13
12. Chapter 14
13. Chapter 15
14. Chapter 16
15. Chapter 17
16. Chapter 18
17. Chapter 19
18. Chapter 20
19. Chapter 21
20. Chapter 22
21. Chapter 23
22. Chapter 24
23. Chapter 25

The Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas showcase the rich film heritages of various countries across the globe. Each volume sets the agenda for what is now known as world cinema while challenging Hollywoods lock on the popular and scholarly imagination. Whether exploring Spanish, German, or Chinese film, or the broader traditions of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and Latin America the 2025 newly commissioned essays comprising each volume include coverage of the dominant themes of canonical, controversial, and contemporary films; stars, directors, and writers; key influences; reception; and historiography and scholarship. Written in a sophisticated and authoritative style by leading experts they will appeal to an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

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Edited by

Birgit Beumers

This edition first published 2016
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Names: Beumers, Birgit, editor.
Title: A companion to Russian cinema / edited by Birgit Beumers.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. |
Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemas | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002848 (print) | LCCN 2016005050 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118412763 (cloth) |
ISBN 9781118424735 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118424704 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Motion picturesSoviet UnionHistory and criticism. |
Motion picturesRussia (Federation)History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PN1993.5.R9 C64 2016 (print) | LCC PN1993.5.R9 (ebook) | DDC 791.430947dc23
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Cover image: Poster for Aleksei Balabanovs Ya Tozhe Khochu/Me Too. Reproduced with permission of Sergei Selianov, CTB Film Company.

Anthony Anemone is a literary historian and film critic who writes about modern Russian literature and cinema. Educated at Columbia University and The University of California, Berkeley, he has taught at Colby College, The College of William and Mary, and, since 2007, at The New School. His essays and reviews have been published in Slavic Review, The Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, The Tolstoy Studies Journal, Revue des Etudes Slaves, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, and in numerous books. The editor of Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (2010) and, with Peter Scotto, the translator and editor of "I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary" The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms (2013), which was named the Best Literary Translation by the Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. At present, he is at work on a monograph about the life and career of Mikhail Kalatozov.

Djurdja Bartlett is Reader in the Histories and Cultures of Fashion at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She has widely published and lectured on the theme of fashion during socialism and post-socialism. Bartlett is author of FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted Socialism (2010); FashionEast: prizrak brodivshii po vostochnoi Evrope (2011), and editor of the volume on East Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus in the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010). Bartletts new monograph European Fashion Geographies: Style, Society and Politics (2016) has been funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship grant.

Maria Belodubrovskaya is Assistant Professor of Film at the University of WisconsinMadison. She has published articles in Cinema Journal, Slavic Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and KinoKultura and is completing a book on the Soviet film industry during the Stalin period.