[PDF] Moscow Believes In Tears eBook

Author : Louis Menashe
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 098458322X

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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 with a broad-ranging and sensitive eye for cinematic meaning and detail."-Anthony Anemone, The New School University"This sparkling collection of film reviews, essays and interviews with filmmakers is a cultural history of Russia over the past 25 years. Highly recommended to everyone interested in Russia and the movies."-Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont, and author of Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds."A great national cinema is explored in its myriad colors and textures. Not a traditional history, the book is an archive of insights captured across years of passionate viewing."-Jerry W. Carlson, The City College and Graduate Center CUNY, host of the popular program, "City Cinematheque.""Menashe allows us to see both Russia's present and her past through his crisp, clear and fresh lens of a true expert who loves the country and its films, but always remains critical enough to see their flaws and merits."-Birgit Beumers, University of Bristol

Author : Barbara Armonas
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983233039

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Exile in Siberia. The story of a 20-year fight to reunite a family across the Iron Curtain.

Author : Marko Dumančić
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1487531850

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Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781904764984

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This volume explores the cinema of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, ranging from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It offers an insight into the development of Soviet film, from 'the most important of all arts' as a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era, from the rise of its 'dissident' art-house cinema in the 1960s through the glasnost era with its broken taboos to recent Russian blockbusters. Films have been chosen to represent both the classics of Russian and Soviet cinema as well as those films that had a more localised success and remain to date part of Russia's cultural reference system. The volume also covers a range of national film industries of the former Soviet Union in chapters on the greatest films and directors of Ukrainian, Kazakh, Georgian and Armenian cinematography. Films discussed include Strike (1925), Earth (1930), Ivan's Childhood (1962), Mother and Son (1997) and Brother (1997).

Author : Louis Menashe
Publisher : New Academia Publishing/VELLUM Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780999557211

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A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author's experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuations of American politics. The vivid log of hopes and disillusions is related in a candid, non-academic style, and set against a panorama of history and politics in the late 20th century.

Author : V Speys
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781795256568

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MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARSDetective StoriesContent page: Book-1. ----------------------------------------------1 Book-2. --------------------------------------------12 BOOK-1 "The characters of detective stories-5 and action are fictional, accidental coincidence of the text."Author's Note.MILITARY BASE Before leaving, Alma-Ata, where the headquarters of the Central Asian Military District, Alexander asked his wife to come to him with the baby when the baby get stronger and it will be possible to bring it to the post. At this Natasha told him that he would ask his mother to come to help care for the baby when it is born. On that note, the couple decided to ... So, in the district headquarters staff colonel who oversaw the Air Force base, said the young recruits junior officers: - From the bus station to the capital of Kyrgyzstan, you will take the bus. What neither be twelve o'clock drive and you will be in Bishkek. There's a shuttle bus to get to the place of service. Chief of personnel Captain Rostov N. Gregory, the officer put you in the hostel. Do you have any questions? - And all around sixteen young men questioning look. Failure spoke haired man, slightly stooped, for obvious validity of his words, and loudly for all to hear: - And what a service you do not have transportation? We are generally not in a guided tour, and the direction of military offices duty to the Motherland give! - You see, some wise guy turn up? - Not joking not seriously asked the colonel. - Out of the ranks! And identify yourself who you are? - Ordered the official. The guy took a step forward out of action and said: - I'm from Taganrog, Lieutenant Grigory Nikolaevich Davidenko.- Wow, the namesake Captain Rostov. So Grisha, Lieutenant until you fit and without an oath,