The New Russian Book : a Graphic Cultural History / Birgitte Beck Pristed.
"The New Russian Book is an amazing cultural history of post-Soviet Russia analyzed through the ups and downs of its extraordinary graphic culture. The author introduces us to scores of Russian books published over the last few decades, cheap paperbacks and richly bound hardbacks, popular ficti...
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Springer International Publishing,
2017.
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| Series: | New directions in book history.
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Table of Contents:
- The New Russian Book; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration and Translation; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Research Design; Book Design in Theory; Literary Studies: The Book Cover as a Textual Threshold; Book History: The Material Book and the Sociology of the Text; Media and Visual Studies: The Book Cover Between Text and Image; Research Diversities: The Western Book Conceptualized as Trade Object ... ; ... versus the Russian Book Sacralized as an Integral Organism; Russian Book Studies: From Soviet Book Art to Post-Soviet Book Design; Notes.
- PART I Russian Book Design from the Soviet Period to the Present2 The Soviet Hardback Revolution; The "Paperback Revolution" and Mass Culture in the West ... ; ... versus "Hardening" of a People's Culture in the USSR; A Test Sample; The 1920s: A "Paper Decade" of "Oblozhki"; The 1930s: Centralization, Standardization, Serialization, and the Hardback; A Hierarchy of Text and Image; World War II: Back to the Paperback; The Post-War Hardback as Mass Product and Monument; The Thaw: Book Art Exhibitions, Dust Jackets, and Unbound Samizdat; 1968: A Soviet "Pocket Book" Dispute.
- Late Soviet Period: The Standardized Book in CrisisNotes; 3 Perestroika and Post-Soviet Redesign; How to Design "Democratization"?; Early 1990s: From "Knizhnaia Kul'tura" to "Knizhnaia Khaltura"; The Import of Western Computer Technology; The Export of Russian Book Art; The Import of Western Cover Motifs; A State Defense against the Declining Culture of the Book?; Turbulent Fluctuations of Paperbacks and Hardbacks; Notes; 4 Russian Book Design Today; The New Central Function of the Book Cover; Market Segmentation versus Design Hybridization.
- Serialization and Centralization: The End of Plurality?Internationalization: Copyright, ISBNs, and the Book Spine; The Ambivalent Notion of the Paperback; "Capitalist Realism" and the Return of Monumental Books; Notes; Part II Changing Values in Visual Representation of Literature; 5 The Classic Returns: Anton Chekhov's "Dama s sobachkoi"; Drama or Vaudeville: The Pre-Revolutionary "Dama s sobachkoi"; Chekhov's Works After the Revolution: From Paperback to Hardback; "Dama s sobachkoi" in Soviet Book Illustration; From Perestroika Reinterpretations to ... the End of "Dama s sobachkoi"?
- Chekhov's Revival, 1999-2010List of Chekhov Editions; Notes; 6 The Western World in a Russian Pocket?; Chase in Britain: Orwell's Totalitarian Nightmare; Continental Chase: Deleuze's Postmodern Master of Pastiche and Parody; Chase in the USSR: "Under Cover" in State-Run Literary Journals; Welcomed in the Peripheries, Rejected in the Capitals; The TV Film Mirazh (1983) and the Boom of "Samizdat" Chase; From Journal to Book: Chase Editions by State Publishers; A Joint Venture Paperback: Chase as Liberal Humanist; Post-Soviet Hardback Editions of Chase's Collected Works.
- The Monopolization of Chase
- A National Classic?