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Soviet Life
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Decades of Crisis
This volume leads the reader through the maze of social, cultural, economic and political changes in 12 Central and Eastern European countries, showing how every path ended in dictatorship and despotism by the start of World War II.
Before Superman
The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today’s comic-book and cinematic superheroes. Superhumans—humans who have evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any reason to be—first showed up in science-fictional narratives during the genre’s emergent Radium Age. Originally published between 1902 and 1928, the stories and excerpts anthologized in this volume by Joshua Glenn feature the likes of Marie Corelli’s Young Diana, who, having been rendered super-alluring via a rejuvenation experiment, seeks revenge on a sexist society; Francis Stevens's Thomas Dunbar, one of the first lab-created superhumans; Zoo and Yva, superwomen who contemplate the...
Towards a Theory of Montage
I.B.Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest translations and fully annotated, of the writings of this great filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film - and one of the most original aesthetic thinkers of the twentieth century. The name of Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) is synonymous with the idea of montage, as exemplified in his silent classics such as "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and "October" (1927). In the 1930s his style changed, partly to accommodate the arrival of sound, and his ideas on audio-visual counterpoint developed. Between 1937 and 1940 he elaborated his ideas on montage in a series of essays, most of which remained unpublished until after his death and which are published in English for the first time in this volume. They present the essence of Eisenstein's thinking on cinema and aesthetics more generally and reveal him as one of the most significant philosophers of art of the twentieth century.
Zinaida Hippius
Zinaida Hippius, who died in 1945atthe age of 76, was a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her works had a remarkable impact upon the spiritual and cultural life of St. Petersburg and Paris during the first two decades of the twentieth century, the Silver Age of Russian poetry. In Soviet publications today, however, she is called a "Decadent," a counterrevolutionary, and an enemy of Communist society. Miss Pachmuss's brilliantly perceptive and thoroughly scholarly study makes an important contribution to the study of Russian literature and cultural movements. Against the background of late nineteenth-century literary and intellectual life, Miss Pachmuss explores the cultural ferment out of which Russian Symbolism emerged. It was in this sphere, she shows, that Hippius found personal identity, and of which she became an exponent, exemplifying in her own work that bond between religion, poetry, and mystical sensuality that characterized Russian literature in those years.
The Annual Obituary
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