Non-fiction anthology: Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema:

A Critical Reader

Editor:  Anindita Banerjee

Language:  English

Bibliographic comments:

Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader

Anindita Banerjee, ed.

2018

<  January 2018, 1st edition

Academic Studies Press

ISBN 978-1-61811-723-6

Trade paperback, 520 pages

$49.00

Notes:

  •  'Introduction: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the Screen' by Anindita

     Banerjee.

Essays: Darko Suvin, The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction  //  Mark B. Adams, Red Star: Another Look at

Aleksandr Bogdanov  //  Anindita Banerjee, Generating Power  //  Asif A. Siddiqi, Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians,

Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia  //  Dominic Esler, Soviet Science Fiction of

the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in Its Political and Social Context  //  Eliot Borenstein, The Plural Self:

Zamiatin's We and the Logic of Synecdoche  //  Andrew J. Horton, Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov's

Aelita  //  Yvonne Howell, Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov's Journey Into the Heart of Dogness  //  Michael G.

Smith, Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics  //  Lynn Berker, Robert Skotak, Klushantsev: Russia's Wizard of

Fantastika  //  Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatsky's

Science Fiction, 1963-1972  //  Stephen Dalton, Tarkovsky, Solaris, and Stalker  //  Elana Gomel, Viktor Pelevin and

Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia  //  Vlad Strukov, The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmanbetov's Night Watch

Cinematic Trilogy  // Aleksandr Chantsev, The Antiutopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in

the Mid-2000s