Screening Soviet Nationalities Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia (KINO: The Russian and Soviet Cinema Series) by OksanaSarkisova Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2016 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-78453-573-5, ISBN: 1-78453-573-7
"Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen. These films created blueprints of the Soviet domain’s scenic, cultural, and ethnographic perimeters and brought together – in many ways – disparate nations under one umbrella. Categorised as kulturfilms, they served as experimental grounds for developing the cinematic formulae of a multiethn ..."
"This version of the trickster would return in Georgii Daneliia's tricksters: his Afonia
(Leonid Kuravlev), in the eponymous film (1973), represents a proletarian
trickster as an abusive anti-intelligentsia manipulator with a lost sense of the
purpose of life; and Autumn Marathon (Osennii marafon, 1979), introduces the
janitor Vasilii (Evgenii Leonov), who feels entitled to interfere into the life of the
intelligentsia and in this c ..."
"As the Swiss theatre director and journalist Milo Rau, founder of the International
Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), has astutely pointed out, there is a fundamental
difference between the dissidence of the Cold War era and today's dissent, and it
is dangerous to confuse the two. The Western idea of dissidence is rooted in
cases such as those of Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which is a
romanticized image; today's ..."
Aleksandr Sokurov Russian Ark (Kinosputnik) by BirgitBeumers Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-703-9, ISBN: 1-78320-703-5
"Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de Custine as he wandered through the vast Winter Palace in St. Petersburg—and through three hundred years of Russian history. This companion to Russian Ark addresses all key aspects of the film, beginning with a comprehensive synops ..."
Aleksandr Sokurov Russian Ark: Russian Ark by BirgitBeumers 92 Pages, Published 2016 by Intellect Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-705-3, ISBN: 1-78320-705-1
"... who agrees to conduct the mazurka with the Mariinsky Orchestra September –
Meeting with Aleksandr Golutva (Deputy Minister of Culture) 5 October – Meeting
with producer Andrei Deriabin and St Petersburg's governor, Vladimir Iakovlev, ..."
"Svetlana Proskurina identified Sokurov as the key to “the resurrection, or return ...
of the legendary Lenfilm of the twenties” (Proskurina 1990, 24), though many of
his films were no more than a rumor for the Russian public, as the film distribution
system collapsed. As early as 1990 Tat'iana Moskvina complained about the
disjuncture between Sokurov's subject matter and visual style, a disjuncture she
found typical of the Leningra ..."
"3 See Andrew Horton and Michael Brashinsky, The Zero Hour: Glasnost and
Soviet Cinema in Transition (Princeton, 1992), p. 238. 4 Tusovka is a Russian
colloquialism, originally referring to spontaneous gatherings of members of
bohemian urban artistic circles in the late 1970s and 1980s. The art theorist
Viktor Miziano defines tusovka in this narrow sense as an original sociocultural
phenomenon, a grouping of individuals consolidated ..."
Russia’s New Fin de Siècle Contemporary Culture between Past and Present by BirgitBeumers 200 Pages, Published 2013 by Intellect Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-086-3, ISBN: 1-78320-086-3
"merely lamentable; one might even say there is no condition, because man
hardly exists. Nothing exists to which one could point and say: 'There, that is
Homo Zapiens.' HZ is simply the residual luminescence of a soul fallen asleep; it
is a film ..."
"... famous children's story Zolotoi klyuchik, ili priklyueheniya Buratino (The
Golden Key, or Buratino's Adventures) by Aleksei Tolstoy (1936) and the popular
film of 1975 based on the book, Priklyueheniya Buratino, directed by Leonid
Nechaev, ..."
"Omirbaev's subsequent films have been distributed internationally: The Road [Jol
, 2001], followed by Shuga (2007) and Student (2012), both transferring the plots
of Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment respectively onto a modern
Kazakh context. RAZYKOV, Yusup Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), 1957 Director,
screenwriter. Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan (2000). In 1986 he graduated from
the scriptwriting faculty of VGIK. After proving to be a b ..."
"sense of the term, viz Maria (Peasant Elegy), Sokurov's first documentary film
about the Russian kolkhoz worker Maria Semenovna Voinova; Elegy and
PetersburgElegy, two portraits of Fedor Chaliapin; Moscow Elegy, a portrait of
Sokurov's ... Elegy ofLife, a portrait of opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya and
cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.3 I shall explore these portraits in the light of their
underlying elegiac mood through an analysis ..."
A History of Russian Cinema (Hardcover) by BirgitBeumers Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-84520-214-9, ISBN: 1-84520-214-7
"Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably with the work of Eisenstein, and a huge growth in the audience for film, which continued into the 1930s with the rise of musicals. The films of the Second World War and Cold War periods reflected a return to political concerns in their repr ..."
"Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the “most important of all arts†for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably with the work of Eisenstein, and a huge growth in the audience for film, which continued into the 1930s with the rise of musicals. The films of the World War II and Cold War periods reflected a return to political concerns in their ..."
"The so-called "New Russian Drama" emerged at the end of the twentieth century, following a long period of decline in dramatic writing in the late Soviet and post-Soviet era. In "Performing Violence," Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works by young Russian playwrights. Reflecting the disappointment in Yeltsin's democratic reforms and Putin's neoconservative politics, the play ..."
Performing Violence Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama by BirgitBeumers, Mark Lipovetsky 316 Pages, Published 2009 by Intellect Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-346-2, ISBN: 1-84150-346-0
"Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama Birgit Beumers, Mark
Lipovetsky ... Since two brains have to operate the extremities and as, hrrra-fra-
pra. ... of residence – 'Nowhere, till the next time, again already' (Petrushevskaya
1991: 2), the promise 'I'll be there Friday, like a turncoat' (ibid., 3), the formula of ..."
Pop Culture Russia! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle (Popular Culture in the Contemporary World) by BirgitBeumers 399 Pages, Published 2005 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-85109-464-6, ISBN: 1-85109-464-4