{"product_id":"russian-science-fiction-literature-and-cinema-a-critical-reader-9781618117236","title":"Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world. Informed perspectives on the surprisingly long and incredibly rich tradition of Russian science fiction, however, are hard to come by in accessible form. This critical reader aims to provide precisely such a resource for students, scholars, and the merely curious who wish to delve deeper into landmarks of the genre, discover innumerable lesser-known gems in the process, and understand why science fiction came to play such a crucial role in Russian society, politics, technology, and culture for more than a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include: Mark B. Adams, Anindita Banerjee, Lynn Barker, Eliot Borenstein, Aleksandr Chantsev, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Stephen Dalton, Dominic Esler, Elana Gomel, Andrew Horton, Yvonne Howell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Robert Skotak, Michael G. Smith, Vlad Strukov, Darko Suvin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"It’s a comprehensive, and even exhaustive, read featuring a host of contributors and which, to varying extents, likely will appeal not just to those wanting a handle on the Sci-Fi\/Cinema connection, but perhaps to Russophiles across-the-board, too.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003e- Screentrade Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This collection of scholarly articles related to the chronological history and development of Russian science fiction in film and literature is a valuable contribution to a little-studied genre.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003e- International Journal of Russian Studies (2018)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnindita Banerjee: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the ScreenI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eI. FROM UTOPIAN TRADITIONS TO REVOLUTIONARY DREAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDarko Suvin: The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMark B Adams: Red Star: Another Look at Aleksandr Bogdanov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnindita Banerjee: Generating Power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAsif A Siddiqi: Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eII. RUSSIA’S ROARING TWENTIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDominic Esler: Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in its Political and Social Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEliot Borenstein: The Plural Self: Zamjatin’s We and the Logic of Synecdoche\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew J Horton: Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov’s Aelita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYvonne Howell: Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov’s Journey into the Heart of Dogness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIII. FROM STALIN TO SPUTNIK AND BEYOND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMichael G Smith: Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLynn Barker and Robert Skotak: Klushantsev: Russia’s Wizard of Fantastika\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIstvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr: Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys’ Science Fiction, 1963–72\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephen Dalton: Tarkovsky, Solaris, and Stalker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIV. FUTURES AT THE END OF UTOPIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElana Gomel: Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVlad Strukov: The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAleksandr Chantsev: The Antiuopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in the Mid-2000s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359754256727,"sku":"9781618117236","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618117236.jpg?v=1754125611","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/russian-science-fiction-literature-and-cinema-a-critical-reader-9781618117236","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}