In Nederland hebben we tientallen schilders, schrijvers, dichters, architecten en beeldhouwers met een eigen beeldspraak en een eigen mythologie, een eigen vormgevoel en een eigen stem, we hebben e...
This book offers a new perspective on the history of theatre in imperial Russia, focusing on the rise and regulation of the theatre industry and on the development of the idea of theatre. Murray Fr...
Documents the extraordinary development of those fruitful years from the beginning of the 1900s to 1932. Includes illustrations of performances directed by Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Mikhail Chekhov.
The story of Soviet film in the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of world cinema. The author explores the roots of Soviet cinema in the film heritage of pre-Revolutionary Rus...
Off Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s. Pro...
The so-called New Russian Drama emerged at the end of the twentieth century, following a long period of decline in dramatic writing in the late Soviet and post-Soviet era. In Performing Violence,...
The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four an...