RUSS405-12W (C) Whole Year 2012
Literary Topic

Description

TEXTUALITY OF FILM AND FICTION: THE CASE OF OBLOMOV
A study of film adaptations of some literary texts.

Ivan Goncharov’s famous novel "Oblomov" (1859) will be studied in both historical context and as a supra-historical typology of human (and national) character. Mikhalkov’s film "Oblomov" (1977) will be viewed as an ideological reevaluation of the nineteenth-century text in the political realia of the Soviet Union in the last two decades of its existence. The problems of popular culture recycling the themes and motifs of high culture will be examined from the historical and inter-disciplinary perspectives.
Primary sources: Ivan Goncharov, "Oblomov";  Nikita Mikhalkov, "Oblomov".

Pre-requisites

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