Marina Rojavin is a visiting assistant professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr University. She is a coeditor of Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Decay and Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods. Tim Harte is a professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr University. He is the author of Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture and Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930, and a coeditor of Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s and Women in Soviet Film.
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List of Illustrations Introduction Part I. Temporal Choices Chapter 1. The (In)Hospitable Terrain of Tengiz Abuladze's The Plea Chapter 2. Andrei Tarkovsky and the Spiritualization of Time Chapter 3. Cinema as a Persian Carpet: Ali Khamraev's Exploration of Genre Part II. Aesthetic Choices Chapter 4. Otar Iosseliani and His Filmic Framing of Tradition Chapter 5. Within and Without the Frame: Ways of Seeing and Knowing in the Films of Sergei Parajanov Chapter 6. From Word to Silence: Literary Metamorphosis in Roman Balayan's Films Chapter 7. The Rock-and-Roll Auteur: Sergei Solovyov's "Youthful Insanity" Part III. Ethical Choices Chapter 8. "A Woman in a Male Profession": Larisa Shepitko and the Female Auteur Chapter 9. Getting to Know the Big Wide World: Kira Muratova and the Labor of Love Chapter 10. Hard to Be a Stoic: Aleksei German Sr.'s Drama of Endurance Acknowledgments Contributors Index
"Bringing together leading and emerging scholars of Soviet film and culture, this valuable collection probes the notion of auteurism in its vernacular manifestations while expanding our knowledge of Soviet cinema." - Viktoria Paranyuk, author of Cinema of Sincerity: Soviet Films and Culture During the Thaw