Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shuksin in Soviet Russian Culture

Author:   John Givens
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
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9780810117709


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 June 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shuksin in Soviet Russian Culture


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A wildly prolific director, actor, and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post-Stalinist USSR. This first English-language study of Shukshin and his work is thus a portrait of the culture of Soviet Russia after Stalin. John Givens begins with Shukshin's position between cultural realms and social strata: his abandoned peasant heritage in Siberia as the son of a purged kulak on the one hand and his life as a successful artist in Moscow on the other. Givens shows how this clash of cultures and identities was both a burden and the driving force of Shukshin's art-and how it represents a central dichotomy between rural and urban culture in Soviet Russia.This work provides new terms for rereading the culture of Shukshin's time- terms that take up notions of demographic displacement, class difference, and blurred boundaries among genres, audiences, and arts.

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Author:   John Givens
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780810117709


ISBN 10:   0810117703
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 June 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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