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Table of Contents: List of Plates ................................................................................... Acknowledgements ........................................................................... Notes on Contributors ......................................................................... Introduction The Ekranizatsiia in Russian Culture (Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski)............................. SECTION ONE: FILM ADAPTATIONS FROM THE START TO STALIN: MANUFACTURING THE MYTH 1 'Crime Without Punishment': Re-Workings of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Sources in Evgenii Bauer's Child of the Big City (Rachel Morley) 2 Educating Chapaev: From Document to Myth (Jeremy Hicks) .............. 3 Ada/opting the Son: War and the Authentication of Power in Soviet Screen Versions of Children's Literature (Stephen Hutchings) ........................ SECTION TWO: LITERATURE AND FILM IN THE POST-STALIN PERIOD: THE MYTH IN RETREAT 4 Adapting Foreign Classics: Kozintsev's Shakespeare (David Gillespie) .... 5 The Sound of Silence: From Grossman's Berdichev to Askol'dov's Commissar (Graham Roberts) ......................................................... 6 Film Adaptations of Aksenov: The Young Prose and the Cinema of the Thaw (Julian Graffy) ............................................................................ 7 Screening the Short Story: The Films of Vasilii Shukshin (John Givens) SECTION THREE: RE-VIEWING RUSSIA: MYTH AND NATION 8 The Mikhalkov Brothers' View of Russia (Birgit Beumers) ................... 9 Adapting the Landscape: Oblomov's Vision in Film (Russell Valentino) 10 'Imperially, My Dear Watson': Sherlock Holmes and the Decline of the Soviet Empire (Catherine Nepomnyashchy) SECTION FOUR: FROM TEXT TO SCREEN, SOVIET TO POST-SOVIET: RE-INTERPRETING THE MYTH 11 'I Love You, Dear Captive': Gender and Narrative in Versions of The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Joe Andrew) 12 Post-Soviet Adaptations of the Russian Classics: Tradition and Innovation (Anat Vernitski) Bibliography ........................................................................................ Index .................................................................................................
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Film adaptations.
Russian literature -- Film and video adaptations.
Motion pictures and literature -- Soviet Union.
Motion pictures and literature -- Russia (Federation).