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  | | Cinema in Central Asia Rewriting Cultural Histories (KINO: The Russian Cinema (Paperback)) by Michael Rouland, Gulnara Abikeyeva, Birgit Beumers, Deborah Cassidi Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-901-0, ISBN: 1-84511-901-0 "Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, this companion to the cinema of the region combines serious scholarly study with practical accessibility to construct an historical narrative, discuss aspects of ..." |
 | | Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) by Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, Sanna Turoma Paperback, Published 2019 by Routledge 2019-12 ISBN-13: 978-0-367-87414-8, ISBN: 0-367-87414-8 |
 | | Aleksandr Sokurov Russian Ark (Kinosputnik) by Birgit Beumers 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 ..." |
 | | Performing Violence(2nd Edition) Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama by Birgit Beumers, Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, Mark Lipovetsky, Mark Lipovestsky Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-269-4, ISBN: 1-84150-269-3 "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 ..." |
 | | A History of Russian Cinema by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-84520-215-6, ISBN: 1-84520-215-5 "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 ..." |
 | | Nikita Mikhalkov(1st Edition) The Filmmaker's Companion 1 (KINO - Russian Filmmakers' Companions) by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2005 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-86064-785-7, ISBN: 1-86064-785-5 "Adored by Russian audiences for his commercially-oriented films, and loathed by the Russian intelligentsia for the same, Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the most successful, ambitious and controversial film-directors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema. Revealing and discussing the key themes explored in his work, Birgit Beumers follows his career from his 1974 debut At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home; through to the French ..." |
 | | Directory of World Cinema Russia 2 by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2015 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-010-8, ISBN: 1-78320-010-3 "Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in the region, including Cold War spy movies and science-fiction films; blockbusters and horror films; remakes and adventure films; and chernukha films and serials. Introductory essays establish key aspects of these genres, and directors’ biog ..." |
 | | World Film Locations Moscow (Intellect Books - World Film Locations) by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2014 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-196-9, ISBN: 1-78320-196-7 "A megalopolis of more than 12 million inhabitants, Moscow is a city with a rich and varied history. First noted in 1147, the town was one of the principal cities of the ancient Rus and had come under frequent attack from the Mongols since the thirteenth century. Under Ivan III, Moscow became the capital city, which it remained until 1712 when St. Petersburg was founded, though Moscow continued to dominate the cultural life of eighteenth ..." |
 | | Russia's New Fin de Siècle Contemporary Culture between Past and Present by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2013 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-730-9, ISBN: 1-84150-730-X "This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia, and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regard to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture. This question comes at a time when Russia is concerned with integrating itself into European arts and culture while enhancing its uniquene ..." |
 | | Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism(1st Edition) The Past as Future (Routledge Europe-Asia Studies) by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-84800-8, ISBN: 0-415-84800-8 "This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political scientists, sociologists, cultural analysts, media studies researchers and media practitioners. The book is one of the first attempts to bridge the ga ..." |
 | | Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism(1st Edition) The Past as Future by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-50881-0, ISBN: 0-415-50881-9 "This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political scientists, sociologists, cultural analysts, media studies researchers and media practitioners. The book is one of the first attempts to bridge the ga ..." |
 | | The Post-Soviet Russian Media(1st Edition) Conflicting Signals (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) by Birgit Beumers, Natalia Rulyova, Stephen C. Hutchings Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67487-4, ISBN: 0-415-67487-5 "This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin of a mass media privatised and accorded its first, limited, taste of independence in the Yeltsin period. It surveys the key developments in Ru ..." |
 | | Directory of World Cinema Russia (IB - Directory of World Cinema) by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 333 Pages, Published 2011 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-372-1, ISBN: 1-84150-372-X "Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein s anti-tsarist drama, "The Battleship Potemkin," to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explosion, this volume explores the sociopolitical impact of the cinema of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Introductory essays establish k ..." |
 | | The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov (KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema) by Birgit Beumers, Nancy Condee, Professor Birgit Beumers Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84885-343-0, ISBN: 1-84885-343-2 "Alexander Sokurov's 'Russian Ark' is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russia's cultural history through a single, 90-minute take. Yet this film is but one milestone in the work of this versatile director. Since the 1990s, Sokurov's films have had international recognition ..." |
 | | The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (24 Frames) by Birgit Beumers, Sergei Bodrov Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Wallflower Press ISBN-13: 978-1-904764-98-4, ISBN: 1-904764-98-3 "This volume explores the cinema of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, ranging from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It offers an insight into the development of Soviet film, from 'the most important of all arts' as a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era, from the rise of its 'dissident' art-house cinema in the 1960s through the glasnost era with its broken taboos to recent Russian b ..." |
 | | Russia on Reels(1st Edition) The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema (KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema) by Birgit Beumers, Professor Birgit Beumers, I.B.Tauris Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-86064-390-3, ISBN: 1-86064-390-6 "Irina Mazurkevich graduates from a bit part in You are My Only One to a leading role in Everything will be OK, while other actors, notably Valentin Bukin and Viktor Gogolev, play a variety of secondary parts. All these connections lead us to look at the films as a kind of single text, offering ever more abstract and theoretical variations on an archetypal pattern, culminating in the hints of metatextuality in The Fourth Planet.** A ..." |
 | | The Collegium Papers VII The Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Sacile 2005 by David Robinson, Birgit Beumers, V. Bocharov, Luca Giuliani Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by La Cineteca Del Friuli ISBN-13: 978-88-86155-26-7, ISBN: 88-86155-26-3 |
 | | Yuri Lyubimov(1st Edition) Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatre (Contemporary Theatre Studies) by Birgit Beumers Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-3-7186-5885-5, ISBN: 3-7186-5885-2 "Tracing Lyubimov's work play by play, we discover an indivudual doomed to be at odds with the prevailing political and social climate of his literary contemporaries. From this unique book there emerges a clear picture of Lyubimov's mischievous, provocative, fearless, and tireless imagination.In this fascinating study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his liberating style of theatre, Birgit Beumers thoroughly explores the making ..." |
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