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Author Hutchings, Stephen C

Title Russian literary culture in the camera age : the word as image / Stephen Hutchings
Published London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 14
BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 14.
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'
Summary "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 during the Soviet period, and concluding with an examination of post-Soviet Russia's encounter with global television. As well as pioneering the exploration of this important new area in Slavic Studies, the book illuminates aspects of cultural theory by investigating how the Russian case affects general notions of literature's fate within post-literate culture, the ramifications of communism's fall for media globalization, and the applicability of text/image models to problems of intercultural exchange"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220) and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203426797
9780203426791
9780415306683
041530668X
1134400519
9781134400515
1280115408
9781280115400