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A detailed look at the work of Russia
A detailed look at the work of Russia's most popular film director.
About the Author
David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of El'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky.
Reviews
"This is a thorough, pioneering introduction to El'dar Riazanov. MacFadyen challenges the Cold War oppositions of state vs entertainment, dogma vs dissidence, and public vs private that have dominated Western academic discussion of Soviet and post-Soviet art and media, elucidating their much more complex emotional and psychological structure in the light of post-Freudian French analysis. He also provides an overview of Riazanov's work that allows readers to place each film within its own historical framework and which situates the filmmaker within the context of Soviet-Russian cinema." Christina Stojanova, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto "David MacFadyen's work here is much more than an introduction to the oeuvre of this artist and showman. MacFadyen traces the interplay between subjective, 'lived' life and the public rhetoric of the State. A close reading of more than a dozen films is informed by a tightly-argued deployment of psychoanalytic and postmodern ideas. The scholarship is exemplary. The writer draws widely on primary sources, almost all in Russian, comprising excerpts from the press and other media, specialized magazines, theoretical works, official statements, government edicts, etc. Equally importantly, his excerpts are shrewdly deployed to clarify the often highly-nuanced 'understanding' between the official culture and its practitioners in the field. This is an important contribution to research." Patrick MacFadden, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
Book Information
ISBN 9780773525894
Author David MacFadyen
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
A detailed look at the work of Russia's most popular film director.
About the Author
David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of El'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky.
Reviews
"This is a thorough, pioneering introduction to El'dar Riazanov. MacFadyen challenges the Cold War oppositions of state vs entertainment, dogma vs dissidence, and public vs private that have dominated Western academic discussion of Soviet and post-Soviet art and media, elucidating their much more complex emotional and psychological structure in the light of post-Freudian French analysis. He also provides an overview of Riazanov's work that allows readers to place each film within its own historical framework and which situates the filmmaker within the context of Soviet-Russian cinema." Christina Stojanova, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto "David MacFadyen's work here is much more than an introduction to the oeuvre of this artist and showman. MacFadyen traces the interplay between subjective, 'lived' life and the public rhetoric of the State. A close reading of more than a dozen films is informed by a tightly-argued deployment of psychoanalytic and postmodern ideas. The scholarship is exemplary. The writer draws widely on primary sources, almost all in Russian, comprising excerpts from the press and other media, specialized magazines, theoretical works, official statements, government edicts, etc. Equally importantly, his excerpts are shrewdly deployed to clarify the often highly-nuanced 'understanding' between the official culture and its practitioners in the field. This is an important contribution to research." Patrick MacFadden, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
Book Information
ISBN 9780773525894
Author David MacFadyen
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
