ABSTRACT
Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of the communist regime on the consciousness of the Soviet people.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|44 pages
Film adaptations from the start to Stalin
chapter 1|16 pages
‘Crime without punishment’
Reworkings of nineteenth-century Russian literary sources in Evgenii Bauer's Child of the Big City
chapter 3|12 pages
Ada/opting the Son
War and the authentication of power in Soviet screen versions of children's literature
part II|53 pages
Literature and film in the postStalin period
part III|42 pages
Re-viewing Russia
chapter 10|13 pages
‘Imperially, my dear Watson’
Sherlock Holmes and the decline of the Soviet Empire
part IV|25 pages
From text to screen, Soviet to post-Soviet
chapter 11|12 pages
‘I love you, dear captive’
Gender and narrative in versions of The Prisoner of the Caucasus
