Tolstoy on screen / edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons and Michael A. Denner.

Other author Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957- editor.
Other author Denner, Michael A. editor.
Format Book
PublicationEvanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2015]
Description344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Michael A. Denner -- Part I. "Father Sergius" -- The swansong of early Russian cinema: Iakov Protazanov's Father Sergius (1918) / Denise J. Youngblood -- Part II. Resurrection -- "A free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel": D. W. Griffith's Resurrection and American commercial cinema / Vance Kepley -- Beyond the melodrama of Kachusha-mono: Mizoguchi's Straits of love and hate (Aien kyo -- 1937) / Rie Karatsu -- Mikhail Shveitser's Resurrection (1960, 1962): film adaptation as thaw narrative / David Gillespie -- Part III. The living corpse -- When we dead awaken: a living corpse as a moving picture / William Nickell -- Part IV. War and peace -- Natasha at the opera: cinematic treatments of performance in Tolstoy's War and peace / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Tolstoy's comrades: Sergei Bondarchuk's War and peace (1966-67) and the origins of Brezhnev culture / Stephen M. Norris -- Tolstoy transnational: Dornhelm's adaptation of War and peace for television (2007) / Christine Engel -- Part V. The Kreutzer sonata -- Visualizing ambiguity: two Italian adaptations of the Kreutzer sonata / Paolo Noto -- Part VI. "The death of Ivan Il'ich" -- Out of breath: Bernard Rose's Ivans xtc. (2000) and Tolstoy's "The death of Ivan Il'ich" / Amy Mandelker -- Part VII. "A prisoner of the Caucasus" -- Inverting the imperial dyad: post-Soviet screen adaptations of Tolstoy's "A prisoner of the Caucasus" / Vlad Strukov and Sarah Hudspith -- Part VIII. Anna Karenina -- Screening Anna Karenina: myth via novel or novel via myth / Irina Makoveeva -- Anna in Almaty: Darejan Omirbaev's Shuga (2007) / Alyssa Deblasio -- Adaptation in contexts: a tale of two Annas / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formFilm adaptations.
Genre/formFilm and video adaptations.
LCCN 2014033218
ISBN9780810130210 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810130211 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810168146 (ebook)
ISBN9780810168145 (ebook)
Standard identifier# 40024466831

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PG3415 .F54 T69 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold