This volume of translations represents the entire dramatic and cinematic ouevre of the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš (1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia – 1989, Paris). Coming from a multicultural background, Kiš was a living antipode to the emerging nationalisms of the late 20th century. The seven dramas and screenplays are accompanied by a historical introduction by the translator. Written in...

On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George Lucas, the movie originally called The Star Wars quickly drew blocks-long lines, bursting box-office records and ushering in a new way for movies to be made, marketed, and...

From Amazon: Only serious cineastes will seek out this collection of conversations with Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), but their efforts will be amply repaid with a wealth of information about the Spanish filmmaker's techniques. Mexican film scholars de la Colina and Perez Turrent spent some 50 hours interviewing Bunuel; here they supply transcripts in which his quicksilver wit fairly gleams....

This book is a large-scale study of successful Russian films that have worked for several decades to strengthen the ideology of the Putin regime. You have probably seen many of them and even loved them. But what values do these films convey? How do they teach us to look at the past and what myths do they create? Why are Danila Bagrov and Sasha Bely national heroes in Russia? And why are...

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...