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This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet period, and concluding with an examination of post-Soviet Russia's encounter with global television. As well as pioneering the exploration of this important new area in Slavic Studies, the book illuminates aspects of cultural theory by investigating how the Russian case affects general notions of liter

Russian literature --- History and criticism --- Literature and photography --- Motion pictures and literature --- Television and literature --- Ekphrasis. --- Literature and photography. --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Television and literature. --- Culture in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Literature and television --- Literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Photography and literature --- Photography --- Ecphrasis --- Art in literature --- Description (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism.

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"This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what 'the Kremlin' is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or 'recursion', showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare"--

Mass media policy. --- Nationalism --- Russia (Federation) --- Foreign relations. --- Cultural policy. --- Mass media --- Mass media and state --- State and mass media --- Communication policy --- Government policy --- Foreign relations

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Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of the communist regime on the consciousness of the Soviet people.

Film adaptations. --- Russian literature --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Adaptations, Film --- Books, Filmed --- Filmed books --- Films from books --- Motion picture adaptations --- Motion pictures --- Film adaptations --- Adaptations --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Littérature russe --- Cinéma et littérature --- Film and video adaptations. --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées

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Transnational Russian Studies offers an approach to understanding Russia based on the idea that language, society and culture do not neatly coincide, but should be seen as flows of meaning across ever-shifting boundaries. Our book moves beyond static conceptions of Russia as a discrete nation with a singular language, culture, and history. Instead, we understand it as a multinational society that has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. We treat Russian culture as an expanding field, whose sphere of influence transcends the geopolitical boundaries of the Russian Federation, reaching as far as London, Cape Town, and Tehran. Our transnational approach to Russian Studies generates new perspectives on the history of Russian culture and its engagements with, and transformation by, other cultures. The volume thereby simultaneously illuminates broader conceptions of the transnational from the perspective of Russian Studies. Over twenty chapters, we provide case studies based on original research, treating topics that include Russia's imperial and postcolonial entanglements; the paradoxical role that language plays in both defining culture in national terms, and facilitating transnational communication; the life of things 'Russian' in the global arena; and Russia's positioning in the contemporary globalized world. Our volume is aimed primarily at students and researchers of Russian Studies, but it will also be relevant to all Modern Linguists, and to those who employ transnational paradigms within the broader humanities.

National characteristics, Russian --- Transnationalism --- Russia (Federation) --- Civilization.