Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost
Part of Cambridge Studies in Film
- Editors:
- Michael Brashinsky
- Andrew Horton
- Date Published: December 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087674
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This collection brings together twenty-three essays by some of Russia's most astute commentators on film and culture, written during the 1980s and published here in English for the first time. Included are reviews of films such as Little Vera and Taxi Blues, which were critically hailed in the West. Their comments illuminate important aspects of Russian filmmaking during this decade and capture a sense of a society in flux during the waning years of communism, as well as conveying the larger context within which Glasnost cinema and culture developed.
Read more- An inside view of a society and system in flux as reflected in its film
- A lively and at times heated dialogue offers insight into the successes and shortcomings of Glasnost in general
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"Brashinsky and Horton have done it again...the work consists of 23 essays, which are sometimes witty, sometimes trenchant, and always replete with the requisite amount of Eastern European irony...teachers, students, and film buffs will find much of interest here." J. M. Curtis, Choice
See more reviews"...not only presents the views of Soviet critics on the glasnost movies, it also casts light on film criticism as a type of active and assertive social behavior....a useful tool." Dina Iordanova, Slavic and East European Journal
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087674
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 211 x 151 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.28kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I: Films in a Shifting Landscape:
1. Cinema without cinema Mikhail Yampolsky
2. Cinema for every day Yuri Bogomolov
3. The last romantics Alexander Timofeevsky
4. Jobless prophets Lev Karakhan
5. Midseasonal anarchists Marina Drozdova
6. The most avant garde of all parallel ones Sergei Dobrotvorsky
Part II. Glasnost's Top Ten:
7. Repentence: on the road that leads to the truth Tatyana Khloplyankina
8. Between the circus and the zoo Igor Aleinikov
9. Is it easy to be young
is it easy to be grown up? Lev Anninsky
10. Deafening voids Alexander Kiselev
11. A forgotten tune for the flute, Scherzo - suite - nocturne Alexander Timofeevsky
12. The cold summer of '53 Mikhail Trofimenkov
13. Birds of passage Mikhail Trofimenkov
14. Assa
The tenderest shroud Alexander Timofeevsky
15. Commissar Maya Turovskaya
16. Little Vera: forward, singing Tatyana Moskvina
17. Days of eclipse: out of bounds Victor Bozhovich
18. The days of eclipse Maya Turovskaya
19. The world as a mirror for the other world Mikhail Yampolsky
20. A billion years before the end of cinema Tatyana Moskvina
21. The needle: a dandy of the postpunk era Marine Drozdova
22. Taxi blues: forgiveness Pyotr Shepotinnik
23. Taxi fares, blues fans and film viewers Sergei Lavrentiev
Conclusion
Notes on the Contributors
Directors' Bio-filmography
Filmography
Index.
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