Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age

Stephen Hutchings is Reader in Russian at the University of Surrey. He was formally Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Rochester, New York. He has published books on Leonid Andreev and on Russian modernist prose. He is currently grant-holder for a 3-year AHRB-funded project looking at post-Soviet television culture.

• Part 1 The Impact of Photography on Nineteenth Century Russian Fiction 1. In the Beginning was the Word2. Realism and the Camera: Out from under Gogol's Portret 3. Mediation and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Russian Fiction Part 2 Literature, the Camera and the Shaping of a Soviet Official Sphere 4. The Word in Lights: The Soviet Writer as Media Star 5. Shooting the Canon: The Role of the Ekranizatsiia in Offical Stalinist Culture 6. The Canon under Fire: Film Adaptation at the Margins of Soviet State Ideology 7. Hamlet with a Guitar: Literature, Film and the Problem of Soviet Mass Cuture Conclusion: Literature and Post Soviet Identity in the Era of Global Television

'I also want to point out the exceptional theoretical base of the author’s analysis ... this makes this book a valuable addition to the growing field of contemporary Russian interdisciplinary literary, film, media and cultural studies.' - Evgeny Dobrenko, Revolutionary Russia'Hutchings offers a thought-provoking reading of the intersections between literature and the visual arts in the Russian prerevolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods ... Hutchings's book may be seen as an encouragement to reread and rethink the cultural tradition ... an important and even exciting book.' - Slavic Review