Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema : A Critical Reader

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the Screen / Banerjee, Anindita -- Part One. From Utopian Traditions to Revolutionary Dreams -- The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction / Suvin, Darko -- Red Star: Anoth...
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the Screen / Banerjee, Anindita -- Part One. From Utopian Traditions to Revolutionary Dreams -- The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction / Suvin, Darko -- Red Star: Another Look at Aleksandr Bogdanov / Adams, Mark B. -- Generating Power / Banerjee, Anindita -- Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia / Siddiqi, Asif A. -- Part Two. Russia’s Roaring Twenties -- Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in its Political and Social Context / Esler, Dominic -- The Plural Self: Zamiatin’s We and the Logic of Synecdoche / Borenstein, Eliot -- Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov’s Aelita / Horton, Andrew J. -- Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov’s Journey into the Heart of Dogness / Howell, Yvonne -- Part Three. From Stalin to Sputnik and Beyond -- Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics / Smith, Michael G. -- Klushantsev: Russia’s Wizard of Fantastika / Barker, Lynn / Skotak, Robert -- Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys’ Science Fiction, 1963–72 / Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan -- Tarkovsky, Solaris, and Stalker / Dalton, Stephen -- Part Four. Futures at the End of Utopia -- Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia / Gomel, Elana -- The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy / Strukov, Vlad -- The Antiuopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in the Mid-2000s / Chantsev, Aleksandr -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung