Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema : : A Critical Reader / / ed. by Anindita Banerjee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Mark B.,; Banerjee, Anindita,; Barker, Lynn,; Borenstein, Eliot,; Chantsev, Aleksandr,; Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan,; Dalton, Stephen,; Esler, Dominic,; Gomel, Elana,; Horton, Andrew J.,; Howell, Yvonne,; Siddiqi, Asif A.,; Skotak, Robert,; Smith, Michael G.,; Strukov, Vlad,; Suvin, Darko,
• HerausgeberIn: Banerjee, Anindita,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Syllabus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world. Informed perspectives on the surprisingly long and incredibly rich tradition of Russian science fiction, however, are hard to come by in accessible form. This critical reader aims to provide precisely such a resource for students, scholars, and the merely curious who wish to delve deeper into landmarks of the genre, discover innumerable lesser-known gems in the process, and understand why science fiction came to play such a crucial role in Russian society, politics, technology, and culture for more than a century. Contributors include: Mark B. Adams, Anindita Banerjee, Lynn Barker, Eliot Borenstein, Aleksandr Chantsev, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Stephen Dalton, Dominic Esler, Elana Gomel, Andrew Horton, Yvonne Howell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Robert Skotak, Michael G. Smith, Vlad Strukov, Darko Suvin

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the Screen -- Part One. From Utopian Traditions to Revolutionary Dreams -- The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction -- Red Star: Another Look at Aleksandr Bogdanov -- Generating Power -- Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia -- Part Two. Russia's Roaring Twenties -- Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in its Political and Social Context -- The Plural Self: Zamiatin's We and the Logic of Synecdoche -- Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov's Aelita -- Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov's Journey into the Heart of Dogness -- Part Three. From Stalin to Sputnik and Beyond -- Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics -- Klushantsev: Russia's Wizard of Fantastika -- Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys' Science Fiction, 1963-72 -- Tarkovsky, Solaris, and Stalker -- Part Four. Futures at the End of Utopia -- Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia -- The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy -- The Antiuopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in the Mid-2000s -- Index