-
A war of songs
This book includes studies of music and politics in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including the sounds of Euromaidan, parodies of the Russian national anthem, the Eurovision contest as a geopolitical battleground, and the legacies of Soviet rock.
Regular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Avant-garde art in ukraine, 1910–1930
From pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920s in Kyiv, Ukrainians or artists from Ukraine produced some of the world’s greatest avant-garde art and made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. This book tells their story and explores the roots of their inspirat...
Read MoreRegular price $119.00Sale price $119.00 Regular price $119.00Unit price per -
Cinemasaurus
Cinemasaurus examines ninety recent films over three decades, focusing on four issues of Russia’s transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the film market and new genres, (3) the dialogue with European values and hierarchies, (4) its renegotiation with state power. Its contributors include the n...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Contemporary ukrainian and baltic art
This volume focuses on political and social expressions in the contemporary art of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. It explores the transformations since independence in 1991, discussing how the conflicts and challenges of the last three decades have affected the reconsideration of identi...
Read MoreRegular price $46.00Sale price $46.00 Regular price $46.00Unit price per -
Like a drop of ink in a downpour
Told in the dual points of view, Like A Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a clear-eyed look at the reality of life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, giving us an insider’s perspective on the roots of contemporary Russia. It is also a coming-of-age story, heartfelt and funny, a testament to the ...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Magda nachman
The political turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg and participation in the modernist ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War, to Berlin, and finally to Bombay, ...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Permanent evolution
A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize—and liberate—thinking about literature and the other arts. Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov’s seminal articles on literary theory and film.
Regular price $139.00Sale price $139.00 Regular price $139.00Unit price per -
Russian tv series in the era of transition
This book examines major Russian TV series focusing on three major issues: Russian television’s transition to digital post-broadcast visual economy, Russian television’s integration into global television markets and their genre systems, and major shifts in representation of gender and sexuality...
Read MoreRegular price $139.00Sale price $139.00 Regular price $139.00Unit price per -
Shapes of apocalypse
This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century p...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Sing to victory! (eng)
This well researched, multi-faceted book depicts the relationship between song and society during WWII in the USSR. The songs from that era created a true cultural legacy which reflected both the hearts of the individuals fighting and the narrative of the party and state in bringing the nation ...
Read MoreRegular price $129.00Sale price $129.00 Regular price $129.00Unit price per -
Spaces of creativity (eng)
Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Kharms, Malevich, Dobuzhinsky, and Sh...
Read MoreRegular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per -
The human reimagined
The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and socie...
Read MoreRegular price $139.00Sale price $139.00 Regular price $139.00Unit price per -
The russian avant-garde and radical modernism
The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays...
Read MoreRegular price $49.00Sale price $49.00 Regular price $49.00Unit price per -
The russian cinema reader (volume i)
This two-volume reader consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. These volumes are intended to accompany underg...
Read MoreRegular price $29.00Sale price $29.00 Regular price $29.00Unit price per -
The russian cinema reader (volume ii)
This two-volume reader consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. These volumes are intended to accompany underg...
Read MoreRegular price $29.00Sale price $29.00 Regular price $29.00Unit price per -
Vagabonding masks (eng)
This book explores how the Italian commedia dell’arte has profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination for over three hundred years, providing a source of inspiration for leading artists as diverse as Nikolai Gogol, Evgenii Vakhtangov, Vladimir Nabokov and the pop star Alla Pugacheva.
Regular price $109.00Sale price $109.00 Regular price $109.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
