Author: Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Ultimate Threshold
Author: Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Soviet Science Fiction
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
First published under title: A visitor from outer space.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
First published under title: A visitor from outer space.
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age
Author: Natalija Majsova
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793609322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity’s imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793609322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity’s imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.
New Soviet Science Fiction
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780020226505
Category : Science fiction, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780020226505
Category : Science fiction, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema
Author: Anindita Banerjee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618117229
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The first collection of essays devoted to the rich tradition of Russian science fiction on the page and the screen from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. A resource for classroom instruction as well as research, it provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction's important role in Russian society, politics, technology, and culture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618117229
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The first collection of essays devoted to the rich tradition of Russian science fiction on the page and the screen from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. A resource for classroom instruction as well as research, it provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction's important role in Russian society, politics, technology, and culture.
Red Stars
Author: Patrick L. McGuire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Extrapolations from Dystopia
Author: John Glad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dystopias in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dystopias in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Soviet science fiction
Author: Violet L. Dutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Red Star Tales
Author: Yvonne Howell
Publisher: Russian Life Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit. A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and the head lives to tell the tale… An explorer experiences life on the moon, in a story written six decades before the first moon landing... Electrical appliances respond to human anxieties and threaten to crash the electrical grid… Archaeologists discover strange powers emanating from a Central Asian excavation site… A teleporting experiment goes awry, leaving a subject to cope with a bizarre sensory swap… A boy discovers the explosive truth of his father’s “antiseptic” work, stamping out dissent on distant worlds… The last 100 years in Russia have seen an astonishing diversity and depth of literary works in the science fiction genre, by authors with a dizzying array of styles and subject matter. This volume brings together 18 such works, translated into English for the first time, spanning from path-breaking, pre-revolutionary works of the 1890s, through the difficult Stalinist era, to post-Soviet stories published in the 1980s and 1990s.
Publisher: Russian Life Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit. A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and the head lives to tell the tale… An explorer experiences life on the moon, in a story written six decades before the first moon landing... Electrical appliances respond to human anxieties and threaten to crash the electrical grid… Archaeologists discover strange powers emanating from a Central Asian excavation site… A teleporting experiment goes awry, leaving a subject to cope with a bizarre sensory swap… A boy discovers the explosive truth of his father’s “antiseptic” work, stamping out dissent on distant worlds… The last 100 years in Russia have seen an astonishing diversity and depth of literary works in the science fiction genre, by authors with a dizzying array of styles and subject matter. This volume brings together 18 such works, translated into English for the first time, spanning from path-breaking, pre-revolutionary works of the 1890s, through the difficult Stalinist era, to post-Soviet stories published in the 1980s and 1990s.
Vortex: New Soviet Science Fiction
Author: C. G. Bearne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780261631786
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780261631786
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description