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Article: Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the Word.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Screening the Word: Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001. Ed. by Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski. (BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon Series in Russian and East European Studies) Abingdon and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. 2005. 228 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-30667-6.
Since its emergence as a new medium in the early twentieth century, cinema has entertained a close mutual and, to a large extent, symbiotic relationship with literature. Approximately half of all films adapt, or borrow from, literary sources in one way or another. Compared with this intense cinematic practice, scholarly analysis of the complex relationship of linguistic ...