Russian literary culture in the camera age : the word as image / Stephen Hutchings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220) and index.

Russian realism and the camera : out from under Gogol's 'portrait' -- Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject : the camera as midwife to modernity -- Photographic eye as poetic I : dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto project -- The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word -- Shooting the canon : ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture -- Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia : the official sphere unravels -- Hamlet with a guitar : the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon -- Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Westernness -- In place of a conclusion : television, the end of literature and Pelevin's generation 'P'.