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Alexander Rodnyansky analyzes the cultural and social life of Russia in the 2000s and early 2020s using nine films he produced as examples. Cinema, Rodnyansky believes, reflects changing moods in society better than any social surveys. In this book, he recalls his professional path — from Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 'The 9th Company' to Vladimir Bitokov’s 'Mom, I’m Home' — to understand how, against...

Leading cultural scholar Vladimir Paperny, author of the book ‘Culture Two’, and Maya Turovskaya, a renowned film critic and co-author of the script for the documentary film ‘Ordinary Fascism’, created a joint project in 2008 dedicated to a comparative analysis of Soviet and American cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. After Turovskaya's death in 2019, Paperny continued the study, expanding its...

For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Invariably, Herzog goes beyond the appearance of what is true in search of a higher truth, or what he has often referred to as the “ecstatic truth.” In The Future of Truth, a great...

Ein Zwischenruf im Zeitalter der politischen Manipulation - auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit mit einem phänomenalen Erzähler Washington PostDer große Erzähler Werner Herzog fragt nach der seltsamsten aller Erzählungen: der von der Wahrheit. Was ist wahr? In einer Welt, die durch Fake News, politische Manipulation und künstliche Intelligenz verunsichert ist, die auf kalte Fakten setzt und doch...

‘50’ is a book by Meduza film critic Anton Dolin, published to mark the author's anniversary. The collection includes 50 texts written between 2001 and 2022 for the magazine Iskusstvo Kino (only one article, on Paul Thomas Anderson's ‘Battle After Battle,’ was written specifically for the book). Dolin began his professional career writing for IK, and in 2017, he became head of the editorial...

For patrons of the Taganka Theatre under the direction of Yuri Lyubimov, this collection of poetry was inspired by plays that the author attended during 2004-2008. This slim volume, full of poetic snapshots of the theatre's famous plays, is an elegant tribute to the Taganka's unique place in Moscow's theatre world.

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the...

This book is the first fundamental collection of documents and testimonies concerning domestic cinema during the Great Patriotic War. Many aspects of film history are revealed within it for the first time, and with a completeness never before witnessed.

Wer kennt sie nicht: die Verfilmung des ›Hauptmann von Köpenick‹, mit Heinz Rühmann in der Titelrolle. Schon auf der Bühne war Zuckmayers Theaterstück mit seiner Mischung aus Komik und Sozialkritik ein großer Publikumserfolg. Der Film aber aus dem Jahr 1956 hat das Drama so populär gemacht wie kein anderes aus dem 20. Jahrhundert. Bis heute weckt es unsere Sympathie für all die Schelme und...