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.

Ця неофіційна хроніка заведе вас за лаштунки приголомшливого злету та несподівано непевного тріумфу найвпливовішого культурного феномену нашого часу — Кіновсесвіту Marvel. 20 років тому Marvel Entertainment займалась виробництвом іграшок і була близька до занепаду. Сьогодні Marvel Studios є одним з головних гравців Голлівуду та світової попкультури. Як амбітна кіностудія змогла підкорити...

‘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 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...

Als Lemmy Kilmister am 28. Dezember 2015 starb und sein Teamkollege Mikkey Dee einen Tag später das Ende der Band erklärte, brach für die Fans eine Welt zusammen. Vierzig Jahre sorgte Lemmy, der berühmteste und wichtigste Repräsentant des Heavy Metal, dessen Karriere damit begann, dass er bei Jimi Hendrix die Marshalls aus dem Transporter schleppte, mit seinem martialischen Rock ’n’ Roll in der...

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...

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...

Zur großen Ausstellung im Deutschen Historischen Museum, kuratiert von Dr. Monika Boll, erscheint dieser besondere Band über einen der bekanntesten Liedermacher Deutschlands: Wolf Biermann.

This volume of translations represents the entire dramatic and cinematicáouevreáof the Yugoslav writer Danilo KiÜ (1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia û 1989, Paris). Coming from a multicultural background, KiÜ was a living antipode to the emerging nationalisms of

Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes. This book seeks to address that ga

Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or 'inter-theatricality' as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time