Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age : The Word As Image.

By: Hutchings, StephenMaterial type: TextTextSeries: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European StudiesPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203426791Subject(s): Culture in motion pictures | Ekphrasis | Literature and photography | Motion pictures and literature | Russian literature -- History and criticism | Television and literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age : The Word As ImageDDC classification: 891.709 LOC classification: PG2987.E56 -- H88 2004ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - the scope of the task: in the beginning was the word -- PART I The photographic word -- 1 Russian realism and the camera: out from under Gogol's 'Portrait' -- 2 Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject: the camera as midwife to modernity -- 3 Photographic eye as poetic I: dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto project -- PART II Literature, the camera and the shaping of a Soviet official sphere -- 4 The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word -- 5 Shooting the canon: ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture -- 6 Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia: the official sphere unravels -- 7 Hamlet with a guitar: the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon -- PART III Televising the word -- 8 Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Westernness -- 9 In place of a conclusion: television, the end of literature and Pelevin's Generation 'P' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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 change.
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Cover -- Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - the scope of the task: in the beginning was the word -- PART I The photographic word -- 1 Russian realism and the camera: out from under Gogol's 'Portrait' -- 2 Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject: the camera as midwife to modernity -- 3 Photographic eye as poetic I: dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto project -- PART II Literature, the camera and the shaping of a Soviet official sphere -- 4 The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word -- 5 Shooting the canon: ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture -- 6 Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia: the official sphere unravels -- 7 Hamlet with a guitar: the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon -- PART III Televising the word -- 8 Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Westernness -- 9 In place of a conclusion: television, the end of literature and Pelevin's Generation 'P' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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