Border crossing : Russian literature into film Frontmatter Contents List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Filming Russian Classics Challenges and Opportunities 1 Across the Russian Border 2 Dostoevskiis White Nights : The Dreamer Goes Abroad 3 On Not Showing Dostoevskiis Work: Robert Bressons Pickpocket 4 Stealing the Scene: Crime as Confession in Robert Bressons Pickpocket 5 The Eye deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly 6 A Vicious Circle : Karen Shakhnazarovs Ward no. 6 7 A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences 8 Against Adaptation The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe 9 Chasing the Wealth: The Americanization of Ilf and Petrovs 10 Fassbinders Nabokov From Text to Action: Repressed Homosexuality Provocative Jewishness and Anti German Sentiment 11 The Soviet Abroad (That We Lost) : The Fate of Vasilii Aksenovs Cult Novel A Starry Ticket on Paper and on Screen Conclusion: Passport Control Departing on a Cinematic Journey Bibliography Filmography Index Examines the ways in which Russian texts are altered in order to suit new cinematic environmentsEach time a border is crossed there are cultural political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the border crossing from one temporal or spatial territory into another Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments.In these essays international scholars examine how political and economic circumstances from a shifting Soviet political landscape to the perceived demands of American and European markets have played a crucial role in dictating how filmmakers transpose their cinematic hypertext into a new environment. Rather than focus on the degree of accuracy or fidelity with which these films address their originating texts this innovative collection explores the role of ideological political and other cultural pressures that can affect the transformation of literary narratives into cinematic offerings.ContributorsOtto Boele is an Associate Professor of Russian literature at the University of LeidenAlexander Burry is an Associate Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State UniversityOlga Peters Hasty is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton UniversityDennis Ioffe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent UniversityThomas Leitch teaches English and directs the Film Studies program at the University of DelawareYuri Leving is Professor of Russian Literature and Film in the Department of Russian Studies Dalhousie University CanadaRonald Meyer teaches the seminar in Russian literary translation at Columbia UniversityRobert Mulcahy is a Lecturer in Slavic at The Ohio State UniversityS. Ceilidh Orr is Lecturer at The Ohio State UniversityAlastair Renfrew is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at Durham UniversityFrederick H. White is Associate Vice President Academic Affairs Engaged Learning at Utah Valley University