Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2
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 s...
History of Russian Cinema
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 ...
Aleksandr Sokurov
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 Pal...
Nikita Mikhalkov: Between Nostalgia and Nationalism
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russia's New Fin de Siècle
Russia's New Fin de Siècle brings together a range of texts on contemporary Russian culture - literary, cinematic and popular - as artists and writers try to situate themselves within the traditional frameworks of past and present, East and West, ...
Real Images: Soviet Cinemas and the Thaw
Real Images
The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
In this, the first English-language book to cover Sokurov's full oeuvre, leading scholars on Sokurov unravel his work on documentaries; his early films and literary adaptations; his trilogy on leaders focussing on the decaying body; his films on p...
Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film
Dziga Vertov
Cinema and Soviet Society
The story of Soviet film over the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of World Cinema. In this updated edition of his classic text, Kenez covers the roots of Soviet cinema in the film heritage of pre-Revolutionary Russia, traci...
Post-Soviet Russian Media
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...
Post-Soviet Russian Media
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...
Screening Soviet Nationalities
Soviet expedition films from between 1925-1940 are examined as early forms of documentaries with both ideological and educational agendas
Ukrainian Cinema
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet...
Russia on Reels
Russia on Reels
Performing Violence
Performing Violence
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
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; explores the media, including the internet, film, novels, and fashion, through which the protesters have expressed themselves; and considers the outcome of the movements, including the new forms of nationalism, intellectualism, and feminism put forward. Overall, the book shows how the Russian protest movements have suggested new directions for Russian – and global – politics.
From Categories to Homotopy Theory
Category theory provides structure for the mathematical world and is seen everywhere in modern mathematics. With this book, the author bridges the gap between pure category theory and its numerous applications in homotopy theory, providing the nec...
The Viking-Age Rune-Stones
There are over 3,000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect the diff...
Watercolor Essentials
Everything you need to know to make magic with watercolor!Features 80+ lessons, exercises and demonstrations, including live instruction on the enclosed DVD Watercolor moves like no other medium. Just add water, and the pigment takes on a life of ...
Paint Watercolor Flowers
Featuring 8 beautiful watercolor flower demonstrations, Birgit O'Connor's lessons are perfect for the beginning watercolorist. She'll explain information critical to beginners such as value, shadow composition, creating shape, layering color, simp...
Responsible Enterprise
This fundamental work analyses the great variety of normative processes encompassed by the term 'Corporate Social Responsibility' (CSR) and subjects them to a systematic and critical examination. Domestic and supranational legislation, internation...
Disenchantment with Market Economics
The life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval stand at the centre of the book. It sets out in 1989 at the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wal...
Political Philosophy of Judith Butler
Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time. While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and feminist politics, her focus in recent years has broadened t...
Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought
Julia Kristeva is an important and influential figure within contemporary Continental thought. This book is an engaging appraisal of the complex relationship between Kristeva and feminist theory. Drawing in particular on her recent writings on rev...
Anpassa eller frigöra : åtta studier om pedagogikens uppdrag
Birgit Schaffar är docent i pedagogikens filosofi vid Helsingfors universitet. I åtta studier tar hon sina läsare med på vad hon kallar ett filosofiskt återvinningsarbete för att få syn på vad pedagogikens uppdrag borde vara idag. Hon ger exempel ...
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Madgermanes
Lebenslinien
Lebenslinien
Lace Knit Shawls, Sweaters, Socks & Hats
Lace for every day! Knitted lace pieces are stunning, but that is no reason to save them for only special occasions. The 25 lace patterns in this book are designed to showcase your stitches in pieces that can be worn anywhere. They incorporate Jap...
Multilateral Compliance Mechanisms in EU Environmental Law
Prompted by recent events in the EU's international environmental cooperation, this thought-provoking book explores the establishment and use of multilateral environmental compliance mechanisms as part of the EU's external environmental action. Ex...
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to cr...
Modern German Political Drama 1980-2000
A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification. The last two decades of the 20th century gave rise to a renaissance in the genre of the political drama in Germany. Although political ...
Cultural Dimension of Peace
This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation. Taking an anthropological view on decentralization and peacebuilding in Indonesia, it sets new stand...
