Film Adaptations of Russian Classics

Alexandra Smith is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on Russian literature and culture and authored several books including Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991 (co-authored with Katharine Hodgson, 2020), which was awarded the Alexander Nove 2020 Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Smith has also authored Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian 20th-century Poetry (2006); and The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Work of Marina Tsvetaeva (1994).
Olga Sobolev is Director of the Language, Culture and Society Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests lie in comparative studies and concern nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian and European culture. Her recent books and contributions to edited volumes include: From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: The Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1920s (co-authored with Angus Wrenn, 2017); 'Anna Karenina: The ways of Seeing' (2021); 'Representation of H. G. Wells on the Russian Stage and Screen' (2019); The Only Hope of the World: G. B. Shaw and Russia (co-authored with Angus Wrenn, 2012); The Silver Mask: Harlequinade in the Symbolist Poetry of Blok and Belyi (2008).

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Discusses film adaptations of Russian classics since the 1960s