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Paints a broad picture of China-Israel relations from an historical and political perspective and from the Jewish and Israeli angle. To tell... Læs mere
Cinemasaurus examines ninety recent films over three decades, focusing on four issues ofRussia’s transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the film... Læs mere
Examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis... Læs mere
Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground... Læs mere
The most extensive study of the life and corpus of any Russian or Soviet filmmaker, this book reinserts Dziga Vertov's films into the complex epoch in which he worked, the theoretical debates in which he participated, and the reception his writings and films have generated.
Brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and... Læs mere
Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials,... Læs mere
Examines the origin of the nineteenth-century Russian novel. By removing the Russian novel from its European context, the authors reveal that it... Læs mere
Film as Embodied Art reveals Stanley Kubrick as a genuine master of the art of embodying themental life of characters, a filmmaker... Læs mere
Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to... Læs mere
Presents a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky, a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian... Læs mere