Filming the Unfilmable

Casper Wrede's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0594-6
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 260 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

This volume shares the fascinating story of the cinematic adaptation of one of the world's most influential novels. An all-encompassing account of the film's production and reception, the account is filled with little-known facts and valuable insight into Solzhenitsyn's complex relationship with filmmaking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellmann, Ben

Rogachevskii, Andreii

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the Second Edition by Ian D. Thatcher VII
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. A Film in the Career of Casper Wrede
2. Costings and Funding
3. Pre-production
4. Filming
5. The Book—the Script—the Film: A Comparison
6. Reception
Epilogue and Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Selected Filmography and Bibliography
Appendix I. Casper Wrede's "Russia on My Mind" and "Letter to a Young Actor"
Appendix II. Student feedback after the viewing of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Appendix III. Mikhail Demin's drawings for the set
Appendix IV. Other illustrations
Appendix V. Staging the Unstageable: Casper Wrede's Production of Hope Against Hope (1983)
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Ben Hellman is a Lecturer at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Young People (1574-2010) (Brill 2013).

Dr. Andrei Rogachevskii is the Russian Programme Director at the University of Glasgow.