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Konchalovsky
The publication addresses the oeuvre of 20th-century avant-garde artist Petr Konchalovsky. The album section includes works, executed in different genres (landscapes, portraits and still-lifes) showing the depth and variety of his oeuvre. Andrei Konchalovsky's article, which is a personal address of a grandson to a grandfather, precedes the album section. In the articles, Russian and foreign experts research the interaction between Petr Konchalovsky's oeuvre and the world art tendencies of the late 19th early 20th centuries: from Cézannism to Fauvism, Primitivism, main trends of Russian Avant-garde. They analyse the thematic variety of his works as well as periods of the artist's interest in nature and subject, works and techniques of old masters: Rembrandt, Titian. The book includes chronicle of Petr Konchalovsky's life and work, excerpts from his memoirs and reminiscences of contemporaries.--Publisher's website.
Andrei Tarkovsky
A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror
Michelangelo
After gaining international recognition with The Bolshoi (La Fabrica, 2017), the Russian photographer Sasha Gusov turns us into privileged spectators of the life of one of the most fascinating men in history: Michelangelo. This volume - a collaboration between Sasha Gusov and the russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky - is a photographic diary that not only portrays the shooting of the movie The Sin, but also observes the faces from the past with extraordinary depth, bringing us closer to the Renaissance man's psychology and the lights and shadows of his constant search for beauty. Gusov's beautiful, black-and white photographs, which look like paintings of the Quattrocento, show the actors in meditative poses and in the moments of greatest concentration, in a stark and precise way. AUTHOR: Based in London, Sasha Gusov works for multiple newspapers and magazines, such as The Daily Telegraph and Vogue, as well as image and photography firms. He is the author of Shooting Images (2001) and co-author, along with A. Navrozov, of Italian Carousel (2003). He has also worked for influential clients such as Christie's and Sotheby's.
Hollywood – a Challenge for the Soviet Cinema
This book features four essays that illuminate the relationship between American and Soviet film cultures in the 20th century. The first essay emphasizes the structural similarities and dissimilarities of the two cultures. Both wanted to reach the masses. However, the goal in Hollywood was to entertain (and educate a little) and in Moscow to educate (and entertain a little). Some films in the Soviet Union as well as in the United States were conceived as clear competition to one another – as the second essay demonstrates – and the ideological opponent was not shown from its most advantageous side. The third essay shows how, in the 1980s, the different film cultures made it difficult for the Soviet director Andrei Konchalovsky to establish himself in the US, but nevertheless allowed him to succeed. In the 1960s, a genre became popular that tells the story of the Russian Civil War using stylistic features of the Western: The Eastern. Its rise and decline are analyzed in the fourth essay.
The Inner Circle
The official movie tie-in to the Columbia Pictures film, The Inner circle; includes the story of Alexander Ganshin, Stalin's personal projectionist. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145) and index.
The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films—a very difficult task in any case—must read it." —The Russian Review "This book is a model of contextual and textual analysis. . . . the Tarkovsky myth is stripped of many of its shibboleths and the thematic structure and coherence of his work is revealed in a fresh and stimulating manner." —Europe-Asia Studies "[This book,] with its wealth of new research and critical insight, has set the standard and should certainly inspire other writers to keep on trying to collectively explore the possible meanings of Tarkovsky's film world." —Canadian Journal of Film Studies "For Tarkovsky lovers as well as haters, this is an essential book. It might make even the haters reconsider." —Cineaste This definitive study, set in the context of Russian cultural history, throws new light on one of the greatest—and most misunderstood—filmmakers of the past three decades. The text is enhanced by more than 60 frame enlargements from the films.
Moscow Believes in Tears
This unique collection of writings and interviews highlights the important role that cinema can play for understanding Russian history, politics, culture and society in all phases-Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet. "This is the book for the Russian movie aficionado - personal, pointed, funny, frank and full of all kinds of inside stories and political folk tales. It is a fascinating window on Soviet/Russian pop culture that only a cultural Marco Polo and fanatical movie-goer like Louis Menashe would even dare attempt."-Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Russians and The New Russians"Menashe combines an encyclopedic knowledge of Russian history and society of the past 50 years ...
Before the Wall Came Down
Proceedings of a conference on the topic of Soviet and East European film makers working in the West held at McMaster University in Ontario in March 1989. The volume considers Soviet, Polish, Czech and Hungarian cinema, with particular emphasis on the films by Milos Forman and Jerzy Skolimowski.
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Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. (Cover design by Katie Makrie.)
