Nikita Mikhalkov(1stEdition) The Filmmaker's Companion 1 (KINO - Russian Filmmakers' Companions) by BirgitBeumers 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 ..."
"Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; ..."
Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema(1stEdition) Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) by BirgitBeumers, Eugenie Zvonkine Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-67577-3, ISBN: 1-138-67577-6
"This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that, whereas genres shifted and characters dev ..."
A Companion to Russian Cinema(1stEdition) (CNCZ - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas) by BirgitBeumers Hardcover, 672 Pages, Published 2016 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-118-41276-3, ISBN: 1-118-41276-1
"A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre–Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post–Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up–to–date and thorough coverage of Russian, Soviet and post–Soviet cinema, which also effectively fills gaps in the existing scholarship in the fiel ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
Russia on Reels(1stEdition) The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema (KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema) by BirgitBeumers, Professor BirgitBeumers, 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 ..."
"Neben Literatur und Kunst ist es gerade der Film, in dem die Verschrankung von Stillstand und Dynamik ihren Ausdruck findet, die fur die Kultur des osteuropaischen Raums nach 1945 so kennzeichnend ist. In seinen Bildern lasst der osteuropaische Film diese eigentumliche Zeitstruktur asthetisch erlebbar werden und findet dabei zu jener Poetik der filmischen Zeit-Bilder von toten Zeiten in leeren Raumen, die der franzosische Philosoph Gill ..."
Yuri Lyubimov(1stEdition) Thirty Yerars at the Taganka Theatre (Contemporary Theatre Studies, V. 21) by BirgitBeumers Hardcover, 349 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-3-7186-5875-6, ISBN: 3-7186-5875-5
"The third is the friend, corresponding with Vyazemsky, Pushchin, the presenter of
Boris Godunov, the adult in conflict with his parents, the man in the duel; he was
played by Boris Galkin or Valery Pogoreltsev. The fourth is Pushkin at school, the
thinker and commentator, played by Leonid Filatov. The fifth alludes to the outer
appearance of the poet: in tail-coat, with curly hair, small in stature, the
Gentleman of the Bedchamber ..."
Yuri Lyubimov(1stEdition) Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatre (Contemporary Theatre Studies) by BirgitBeumers 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 ..."