Overview

Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable body of work, one that received an expansive national and international attention and led her to winning the Golden Bear Awards at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1977. Refocus: The Cinema of Larisa Shepitko is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive, methodologically diverse analysis of Shepitko's oeuvre, demonstrating the ongoing significance of her work for filmmakers and scholars alike. The book not only considers the emergence of Shepitko's cinema within Soviet political and cultural history but examines its continued relevance for thinking about such pressing contemporary issues as war and trauma, history, memory and subjectivity, and ecology and the environment.

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9781399524049

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""This timely, wide-ranging volume is the first collection of scholarly essays in English on the Ukrainian Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko. Historically grounded while also engaging with contemporary theory, it shows that the concerns Shepitko explored remain profoundly relevant today. An invaluable contribution to Soviet, global and women's cinema studies."" --Rachel Morley, University College London, UK

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Lida Oukaderova is an Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Art History at Rice University in Houston, USA, and the author of The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw: Space, Materiality, Movement.

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