Northwestern University Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-8101-3021-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6814-5 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3440-9 Library of Congress Classification PG3415.F54T69 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.436
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Scholarship on screen adaptation has proliferated in recent years, but it has remained largely focused on English- and Romance-language authors. Tolstoy on Screen aims to correct this imbalance with a comprehensive examination of film and television adaptations of Tolstoy’s fiction. Spanning the silent era to the present day, these essays consider well-known as well as neglected works in light of contemporary adaptation and media theory. The book is organized to facilitate a comparative, cross-cultural understanding of the various practices employed in different eras and different countries to bring Tolstoy’s writing to the screen. International in scope and rigorous in analysis, the essays cast new light on Tolstoy’s work and media studies alike.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
LORNA FITZSIMMONS is an associate professor of humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
MICHAEL A. DENNER is an associate professor of Russian studies at Stetson University in Florida and the editor of Tolstoy Studies Journal.
REVIEWS
"All of the essays shed light on the intersection of various genres, media, and social and cultural contexts in films based on Tolstoy’s works, in doing so presenting strong interpretations of source texts and transpositions alike. The collection thus offers a great deal to readers interested in how films of Tolstoy’s works contribute to his afterlife. Fitzsimmons and Denner are to be commended for their fine selection of contributors and their diligent editing of this excellent volume." —The Russian Review
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"The volume... offers an illustrative example of film adaptation studies... Lorna Fitzsimmons and Michael Denner should be commended for bringing together a collection of diverse articles that raise a range of questions about the study of film adaptation." —Slavic and East European Journal
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
MICHAEL A. DENNER
I “Father Sergius”
1 The Swansong of Early Russian Cinema: Iakov Protazanov’s Father Sergius (1918)
DENISE J. YOUNGBLOOD
II Resurrection
2 “A free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s powerful novel”: D. W. Griffith’s Resurrection (1909)
and American Commercial Cinema
VANCE KEPLEY
3 Beyond the Melodrama of Kachusha-mono: Mizoguchi’s Straits of Love and Hate (Aien kyo,
1937)
RIE KARATSU
4 Mikhail Shveitser's Resurrection (1960, 1962): Film Adaptation as Thaw Narrative
DAVID GILLESPIE
III The Living Corpse
5 When We Dead Awaken: A Living Corpse as a Moving Picture
WILLIAM NICKELL
IVWar and Peace
6 Natasha at the Opera: Cinematic Treatments of Performance
in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
SHARON MARIE CARNICKE
7 Tolstoy’s Comrades: Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1966-67) and the
Origins of Brezhnev Culture
STEPHEN M. NORRIS
8 Tolstoy Transnational: Dornhelm’s Adaptation of War and Peace for Television (2007)
CHRISTINE ENGEL
V The Kreutzer Sonata
9 Visualizing Ambiguity: Two Italian Adaptations of The Kreutzer Sonata
PAOLO NOTO (University of Bologna)
VI “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”
10 Out of Breath: Bernard Rose’s ivans xtc. (2000) and Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”
AMY MANDELKER VII “A Prisoner of the Caucasus”
11 Inverting the Imperial Dyad:
Post-Soviet Screen Adaptations of Tolstoy’s “A Prisoner of the Caucasus”
VLAD STRUKOV AND SARAH HUDSPITH
VIIIAnna Karenina
12 Screening Anna Karenina: Myth via Novel or Novel via Myth
IRINA MAKOVEEVA
13 Anna in Almaty: Darejan Omirbaev’s Shuga (2007)
ALYSSA DEBLASIO
14 Adaptation in Contexts: A Tale of Two Annas
CATHARINE THEIMER NEPOMNYASHCHY
Index
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Northwestern University Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-8101-3021-0 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6814-5 Paper: 978-0-8101-3440-9
Scholarship on screen adaptation has proliferated in recent years, but it has remained largely focused on English- and Romance-language authors. Tolstoy on Screen aims to correct this imbalance with a comprehensive examination of film and television adaptations of Tolstoy’s fiction. Spanning the silent era to the present day, these essays consider well-known as well as neglected works in light of contemporary adaptation and media theory. The book is organized to facilitate a comparative, cross-cultural understanding of the various practices employed in different eras and different countries to bring Tolstoy’s writing to the screen. International in scope and rigorous in analysis, the essays cast new light on Tolstoy’s work and media studies alike.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
LORNA FITZSIMMONS is an associate professor of humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
MICHAEL A. DENNER is an associate professor of Russian studies at Stetson University in Florida and the editor of Tolstoy Studies Journal.
REVIEWS
"All of the essays shed light on the intersection of various genres, media, and social and cultural contexts in films based on Tolstoy’s works, in doing so presenting strong interpretations of source texts and transpositions alike. The collection thus offers a great deal to readers interested in how films of Tolstoy’s works contribute to his afterlife. Fitzsimmons and Denner are to be commended for their fine selection of contributors and their diligent editing of this excellent volume." —The Russian Review
— -
"The volume... offers an illustrative example of film adaptation studies... Lorna Fitzsimmons and Michael Denner should be commended for bringing together a collection of diverse articles that raise a range of questions about the study of film adaptation." —Slavic and East European Journal
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
MICHAEL A. DENNER
I “Father Sergius”
1 The Swansong of Early Russian Cinema: Iakov Protazanov’s Father Sergius (1918)
DENISE J. YOUNGBLOOD
II Resurrection
2 “A free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s powerful novel”: D. W. Griffith’s Resurrection (1909)
and American Commercial Cinema
VANCE KEPLEY
3 Beyond the Melodrama of Kachusha-mono: Mizoguchi’s Straits of Love and Hate (Aien kyo,
1937)
RIE KARATSU
4 Mikhail Shveitser's Resurrection (1960, 1962): Film Adaptation as Thaw Narrative
DAVID GILLESPIE
III The Living Corpse
5 When We Dead Awaken: A Living Corpse as a Moving Picture
WILLIAM NICKELL
IVWar and Peace
6 Natasha at the Opera: Cinematic Treatments of Performance
in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
SHARON MARIE CARNICKE
7 Tolstoy’s Comrades: Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1966-67) and the
Origins of Brezhnev Culture
STEPHEN M. NORRIS
8 Tolstoy Transnational: Dornhelm’s Adaptation of War and Peace for Television (2007)
CHRISTINE ENGEL
V The Kreutzer Sonata
9 Visualizing Ambiguity: Two Italian Adaptations of The Kreutzer Sonata
PAOLO NOTO (University of Bologna)
VI “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”
10 Out of Breath: Bernard Rose’s ivans xtc. (2000) and Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”
AMY MANDELKER VII “A Prisoner of the Caucasus”
11 Inverting the Imperial Dyad:
Post-Soviet Screen Adaptations of Tolstoy’s “A Prisoner of the Caucasus”
VLAD STRUKOV AND SARAH HUDSPITH
VIIIAnna Karenina
12 Screening Anna Karenina: Myth via Novel or Novel via Myth
IRINA MAKOVEEVA
13 Anna in Almaty: Darejan Omirbaev’s Shuga (2007)
ALYSSA DEBLASIO
14 Adaptation in Contexts: A Tale of Two Annas
CATHARINE THEIMER NEPOMNYASHCHY
Index
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