Border crossing : Russian literature into film /
Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note : 1 Across the Russian Border / Thomas Leitch
- 2. Dostoevskii's "White Nights" : The Dreamer Goes Abroad / Ronald Meyer
- 3. On Not Showing Dostoevskii's Work : Robert Bresson's Pickpocket / Olga Peters Hasty
- 4. Stealing the Scene : Crime as Confession in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket / S. Ceilidh Orr
- 5. The Eye-deology of Trauma : Killing Anna Karenina Softly / Yuri Leving
- 6. "A Vicious Circle" : Karen Shakhnazarov's Ward no. 6 / Alexander Burry
- 7. A Slap in the Face of American Taste : Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences / Frederick H. White
- 8. Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe / Alastair Renfrew
- 9. Chasing the Wealth : The Americanization of Il'f and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs / Robert Mulcahy
- 10. Fassbinder's Nabokov : From Text to Action : Repressed Homosexuality, Provocative Jewishness, and Anti-German Sentiment / Dennis Ioffe
- 11. "The Soviet Abroad (That We Lost)" : The Fate of Vasilii Aksenov's Cult Novel A Starry Ticket on Paper and on Screen / Otto Boele.
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction: Filming Russian Classics—Challenges and Opportunities
- 1 Across the Russian Border
- 2 Dostoevskii’s “White Nights”: The Dreamer Goes Abroad
- 3 On Not Showing Dostoevskii’s Work: Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket
- 4 Stealing the Scene: Crime as Confession in Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket
- 5 The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly
- 6 “A Vicious Circle”: Karen Shakhnazarov’s Ward no. 6
- 7 A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences
- 8 Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe
- 9 Chasing the Wealth: The Americanization of Il’f and Petrov’s
- 10 Fassbinder’s Nabokov—From Text to Action: Repressed Homosexuality, Provocative Jewishness, and Anti-German Sentiment
- 11 “The Soviet Abroad (That We Lost)”: The Fate of Vasilii Aksenov’s Cult Novel A Starry Ticket on Paper and on Screen
- Conclusion: Passport Control—Departing on a Cinematic Journey
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index