Introduction
MICHAEL A. DENNER
I “Father Sergius”
1 The Swansong of Early Russian Cinema: Iakov Protazanov’s
Father Sergius (1918)
DENISE J. YOUNGBLOOD
II Resurrection
2 “A free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s powerful novel”: D. W. Griffith’s Resurrection (1909)
and American Commercial Cinema
VANCE KEPLEY
3 Beyond the Melodrama of Kachusha-mono: Mizoguchi’s Straits of Love and Hate (Aien kyo,
1937)
RIE KARATSU
4 Mikhail Shveitser's Resurrection (1960, 1962): Film Adaptation as Thaw Narrative
DAVID GILLESPIE
III The Living Corpse
5 When We Dead Awaken: A Living Corpse as a Moving Picture
WILLIAM NICKELL
IV War and Peace
6 Natasha at the Opera: Cinematic Treatments of Performance
in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
SHARON MARIE CARNICKE
7 Tolstoy’s Comrades: Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1966-67) and the
Origins of Brezhnev Culture
STEPHEN M. NORRIS
8 Tolstoy Transnational: Dornhelm’s Adaptation of War and Peace for Television (2007)
CHRISTINE ENGEL
V The Kreutzer Sonata
9 Visualizing Ambiguity: Two Italian Adaptations of The Kreutzer Sonata
PAOLO NOTO (University of Bologna)
VI “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”
10 Out of Breath: Bernard Rose’s ivans xtc. (2000) and Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”
AMY MANDELKER
VII “A Prisoner of the Caucasus”
11 Inverting the Imperial Dyad:
Post-Soviet Screen Adaptations of Tolstoy’s “A Prisoner of the Caucasus”
VLAD STRUKOV AND SARAH HUDSPITH
VIIIAnna Karenina
12 Screening Anna Karenina: Myth via Novel or Novel via Myth
IRINA MAKOVEEVA
13 Anna in Almaty: Darejan Omirbaev’s Shuga (2007)
ALYSSA DEBLASIO
14 Adaptation in Contexts: A Tale of Two Annas
CATHARINE THEIMER NEPOMNYASHCHY
Index
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