Russian Literary Culture In The Camera Age

Author : Stephen Hutchings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134400500
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age written by Stephen Hutchings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 change.

Author : Stephen C. Hutchings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781134400461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age written by Stephen C. Hutchings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 change.

Author : Stephen Hutchings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134400519
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age written by Stephen Hutchings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 change.

Author : Meghan Vicks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501307223
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature written by Meghan Vicks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative – that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.

Author : Molly Thomasy Blasing
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501753703
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snapshots of the Soul written by Molly Thomasy Blasing and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snapshots of the Soul considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image. Within the context of long-standing anxieties about the threat that visual media pose to literary culture, Blasing finds that these poets were attracted to the affinities and tensions that exist between the lyric or elegy and the snapshot. Snapshots of the Soul reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to "writing the photograph" is the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience.

Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110698
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006 written by Rosalind J. Marsh and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this book is to explore some of the main pre-occupations of literature, culture and criticism dealing with historical themes in post-Soviet Russia, focusing mainly on literature in the years 1991 to 2006." --introd.

Author : Molly Brunson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 160909199X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Realisms written by Molly Brunson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original study, Molly Brunson traces many such paths that converged to form the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a tradition that spanned almost half a century—from the youthful projects of the Natural School and the critical realism of the age of reform to the mature masterpieces of Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the paintings of the Wanderers, Repin chief among them. By examining the classics of the tradition, Brunson explores the emergence of multiple realisms from the gaps, disruptions, and doubts that accompany the self-conscious project of representing reality. These manifestations of realism are united not by how they look or what they describe, but by their shared awareness of the fraught yet critical task of representation. By tracing the engagement of literature and painting with aesthetic debates on the sister arts, Brunson argues for a conceptualization of realism that transcends artistic media. Russian Realisms integrates the lesser-known tradition of Russian painting with the familiar masterpieces of Russia's great novelists, highlighting both the common ground in their struggles for artistic realism and their cultural autonomy and legitimacy. This erudite study will appeal to scholars interested in Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history, and nineteenth-century realist movements.

Author : Alexander Rojavin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104010259X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Russian Cinema as a Battleground in Russia's Information War written by Alexander Rojavin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentalized, both by Kremlin allies and its detractors, to convey salient political and cultural messages, often in subtle ways, thereby becoming a tool for both critiquing and serving domestic and foreign policy objectives, shaping national identity, and determining cultural memory. It explains how regulations, legislation, and funding mechanisms have rendered contemporary cinema both an essential weapon for the Kremlin and a means for more independent figures to publicly frame official government policy. In addition, the book employs formal cinematic analysis to highlight the dominant themes and narratives in modern Russian films of a variety of genres, situating them in Russia’s broader rhetorical ecosystem and explaining how they serve the objectives of the Kremlin or its opponents.

Author : Frances Nethercott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134369859
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism written by Frances Nethercott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the 1990s, individual legal rights occupied a central place in the drive to modernize criminal justice. This book explores these debates, focusing particularly on the work of Vladimir Solov'ev, a leading philosopher of law writing in the 1890s.

Author : Stephen Hutchings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135277923
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television and Culture in Putin's Russia written by Stephen Hutchings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style of television programmes. All three national channels (First, Russia, NTV) have fallen victim to Putin’s power-obsessed regime. Journalists critical of his Chechnya policy have been subject to harassment and arrest; programmes courting political controversy, such as Savik Shuster’s Freedom of Speech (Svoboda slova) have been taken off the air; coverage of national holidays like Victory Day has witnessed a return of Soviet-style bombast; and reporting on crises, such as the Beslan tragedy, is severely curtailed. The book demonstrates how broadcasters have been enlisted in support of a transparent effort to install a latter-day version of imperial pride in Russian military achievements at the centre of a national identity project over which, from the depths of the Kremlin, Putin’s government exerts a form of remote control. However, central to the book's argument is the notion that because of the changes wrought upon Russian society after 1985, a blanket return to the totalitarianism of the Soviet media has, notwithstanding the tenor of much western reporting on the issue, not occurred. Despite the fact that television is nominally under state control, that control remains remote and less than wholly effective, as amply demonstrated in the audience research conducted for the book, and in analysis of contradictions at the textual level. Overall, this book provides a fascinating account of the role of television under President Putin, and will be of interest to all those wishing to understand contemporary Russian society.