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Images of Dictatorship Stalin in Literature


Free Download Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature By Rosalind Marsh
2017 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1138703656 | PDF | 15 MB
Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigr Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn’s The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov’s Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.

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Images of Apartheid Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa


Free Download Calum Waddell, "Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa "
English | ISBN: 1474450024 | 2021 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent gangster and race-conflict films that defined an era of prolific genre activity, from Joe Bullet (1973) to American Ninja 4 (1990). Contextualising and documenting the cheap, government-funded ‘B-Scheme’ films, largely unseen since the fall of the National Party, but also acknowledging the impact of international co-productions such as

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