Russian literary culture in the camera age
Subtitle: the word as image
By: Stephen Hutchings.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;; 14
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Russian literature -- History and criticism.; Ekphrasis.; Literature and photography.; Motion pictures and literature.; Television and literature.
Description: "This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet period, and concluding with an examination of post-Soviet Russia's encounter with global television.

As well as pioneering the exploration of this important new area in Slavic Studies, the book illuminates aspects of cultural theory by investigating how the Russian case affects general notions of literature's fate within post-literate culture, the ramifications of communism's fall for media globalization, and the applicability of text/image models to problems of intercultural exchange."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Russian realism and the camera : out from under Gogol's 'portrait'; title: Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject : the camera as midwife to modernity; title: Photographic eye as poetic I : dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto Project; title: The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word; title: Shooting the canon : ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture; title: Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia : the official sphere unravels; title: Hamlet with a guitar : the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon; title: Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Western-ness; title: In place of a conclusion : television, the end of literature and Pelevin's generation 'P'.