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Monuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor: Media Matters

Autor Maria Corrigan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2025
Monuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor presents a cultural history of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), an avant-garde collective of Ukrainian artists whose unique approach to monumental history generated a new kind of cinema for a modernizing Soviet era. Often lost in the shuffle of this period, FEKS’s vibrant and experimental cinematic output initiated a youthful and cheeky overhaul of Soviet revolutionary culture. Monuments Askew reveals the foundational role of this understudied group of artists—including Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg—and uses their own theoretical contributions to undo the “foundations” of our understanding of Soviet media and arts. As a counter to a solely cinema-focused conceptualization of this era, Corrigan develops a transnational media theory of eccentricity. Defining eccentric circles as warped, irregular orbits that force a realignment of centers, Monuments Askew shows how FEKS’s body of work inspires an eccentric realignment of the pillars of Soviet visual culture, and indeed of monumentality itself.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978843011
ISBN-10: 1978843011
Pagini: 180
Ilustrații: 30 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Media Matters


Notă biografică

MARIA CORRIGAN is an assistant professor in the College in the Visual and Media Arts Department and Comedic Arts Program at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Filmography
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction     
Eccentric Interlude: Kozintsev’s Inner Movement
1. “The Technique—Circus. The Psychology—Head over Heels”: FEKS’s First Somersault in Cinema
Eccentric Interlude: Trauberg Inside Out
2. The Devil’s Wheel: The Flight from Center
Eccentric Interlude: Actors
3. FEKS’s Overcoat and Eccentrism’s Protagonist
Eccentric Interlude: Split
4. The Trickster: S.V.D. and Eccentrism’s Counter-rebel  
Conclusion: Eccentric Archives     
Notes
Bibliography     
Index

 

Descriere

In a city reeling from Bolshevik revolution, a group of Ukrainian transplants formed the Factory of the Eccentric Actor—a collective devoted to the revolutionary overhaul of stagnant cultural institutions. The story of these artists and their first steps in cinema is perhaps the best kept secret in early Soviet culture.