Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-century Russia [Paperback]

Nancy Condee (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

This collection of essays addresses post-1985 Russian culture. Based on papers presented at a conference on contemporary Russian culture, held at the School of Slavonic Studies and at the British Film Institute in London in 1993, this book places particular emphasis on visual culture, especially film and television. Essays include studies of television coverage of the August putsch, Russian cultural politics since perestroika, Muratova's films and Govorukhin's documentaries. This work features contributions from leading Russian scholars and cultural theorists, including Helen Goscilo, Katerina Clark and Mikhail Iampolski.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: BFI Publishing (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 085170459X
• ISBN-13: 978-0851704593
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nancy Condee is on the Slavic and Film Studies faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Publications include _The Imperial Trace_, _Antinomies of Art and Culture (co-edited with Terry Smith and Okwui Enwezor), _Soviet Hieroglyphics_, and _Endquote_ (co-edited with Marina Baline and Evgeny Dobrenko). She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema , and serves on a number of editorial and advisory boards, including Kinokultura, Critical Quarterly , and Russian Studies in Literature. She is a member of the Russian Guild of Cinema Scholars and Critics (Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation). She served for six years as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the largest US grant agency for social-science research in the former socialist bloc. Her work has appeared in _The Washington Post_, _The Nation_, _October_, _New Left Review_, and major Soviet and Russian publications including _Seans_, _Iskusstvo kino_, _NLO_, and _Voprosy literatury_.