Birgit Beumers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1043428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Beumers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Beumers |
| SIGNATURE | BEUMERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Contemporary History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0945-4490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores …
Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism
Symposium Editors' Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova * The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: Reflections of a Russian Journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina * The Next General Elections in Russia: What Role for the Media? Daphne Skillen * The Neo-Soviet Model of the Media Sarah Oates * Mass Media and the Information Climate in Russia Hedwig de Smaele * The Local and the International in Russian Business Journalism: St…
National identity through visions of the past
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of p…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré lite…
The Media in Russia
Martine Godet, La pellicule et les ciseaux
Le livre de Martine Godet sur la censure dans le cinéma soviétique couvre une période peu étudiée, qui va du Dégel à la perestroïka. S’il existe de nombreuses études sur le cinéma de l’époque stalinienne, de la perestroïka ou des années vingt, la période de la « stagnation » reste à découvrir. Dans ce contexte, cet ouvrage pourrait être une contribution importante à l’histoire de la politique culturelle et cinématographique des années soixante et…
The Performance of Life
Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema
Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema Stephen Norris 1. The Foreigner's Journey to Consciousness in Early Soviet Cinema: The Case of Protazanov's Tommi Julian Graffy 2. The Wise and Wicked Game: Re-Editing, Foreignness, and Soviet Film Culture of the Twenties Yuri Tsivian 3. Dressing the Part: Clothing Otherness in Soviet Cinema Before 1953 Emma Widdis 4. Under the Big Top: America Goes to the Circus Josephine Woll 5. Eisenstein'…
The Post-Soviet Russian Media
Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova Part One: Media, Politics and State 1. Free to get rich and fool around Ivan Zassoursky 2. Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era John A. Dunn 3. Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia Samuel A. Greene 4. The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape Tina Burrett Part 2…
Nikita Mikhalkov
Adored by Russian audiences for his commercially-oriented films, and loathed by the Russian intelligentsia for the same, Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the most successful, ambitious and controversial film-directors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema. Revealing and discussing the key themes explored in his work, Birgit Beumers follows his career from his 1974 debut At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home; through to the French co-product…
Pop Culture Russia
A revealing look at contemporary Russian popular culture, exploring the historical and social influences that make it unique. Pop music is only one aspect of contemporary Russian culture that has taken some unexpected turns in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Television and advertising, theater and cinema, athletics and religion, even fashion and food now reflect more exposure to the West, yet remain in essence distinctively …
Pop Culture Russia
Beumers, B. (2005). Pop Culture Russia!: Media, Arts and Lifestyle. (Popular Culture in the Contemporary World). Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-CLIO
Soviet and Russian Blockbusters
In this introduction, Birgit Beumers explains the concept of the blockbuster, examining its emergence within the context of political upheavals in Soviet history. She then discusses the relation of the blockbuster to the question of genre and defines the blockbuster as a genre film, which follows certain conventions and thereby cradles the spectator in a (false) security. Beumers closes with a chronological survey of popular Soviet films that pro…
Burnt by the Sun
Nikita Mikhalkov’s film about the Stalin period has received wide attention inside and outside Russia, being shown at Cannes, winning an Oscar, and reaching cinemas worldwide. Mikhalkov is a fine and controversial director, and this “KINOfile” is a valuable introduction to his work. It investigates the production, context, and critical reception of the film, the people who made it, and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in Russ…
Russia on Reels
Myth-making and Myth-taking
Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika had an enormous impact on the production and release of films dealing with Soviet history. The Stalinist totalitarianism of the 1930s in particular became the subject of many works in film, theatre and literature. In the late 1980s this concern was reflected in the form of an attempt to restore in the people's memory those pages of Soviet history which had been blotted out. In artistic terms this was expressed…
Russia on Reels
Beumers, B. (Ed.) (1999). Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. (First ed.) (KINO: The Russian Cinema Series). I.B. Tauris
Cinemarket, or the Russian Film Industry in 'Mission Possible
TIE SOVIET FILM INDUSTRY had always relied on the state to finance and distribute its films. State-run film studios would produce the film, employ directors, actors and technical personnel, provide all the facilities for shooting and editing, and take charge of the distribution to state-owned cinemas. Audience considerations were not crucial for the funding of a film, although until 1983 state investments in the film sector as a whole were not on…
Commercial enterprise on the stage
THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC factors on the cultural sector is undisputed, if controversial, in capitalist societies. It is a particularly interesting phenomenon, however, in a country undergoing substantial changes in terms of both political and economic transition towards capitalism in a very short period of time. We therefore need to examine the impact of market economy and commercial structures on the Russian theatre, which for over 70 years has…
Myth-making and Myth-taking
Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika had an enormous impact on the production and release of films dealing with Soviet history. The Stalinist totalitarianism of the 1930s in particular became the subject of many works in film, theatre and literature. In the late 1980s this concern was reflected in the form of an attempt to restore in the people's memory those pages of Soviet history which had been blotted out. In artistic terms this was expressed…
Cinemarket, or the Russian Film Industry in 'Mission Possible
TIE SOVIET FILM INDUSTRY had always relied on the state to finance and distribute its films. State-run film studios would produce the film, employ directors, actors and technical personnel, provide all the facilities for shooting and editing, and take charge of the distribution to state-owned cinemas. Audience considerations were not crucial for the funding of a film, although until 1983 state investments in the film sector as a whole were not on…
Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema
Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema Stephen Norris 1. The Foreigner's Journey to Consciousness in Early Soviet Cinema: The Case of Protazanov's Tommi Julian Graffy 2. The Wise and Wicked Game: Re-Editing, Foreignness, and Soviet Film Culture of the Twenties Yuri Tsivian 3. Dressing the Part: Clothing Otherness in Soviet Cinema Before 1953 Emma Widdis 4. Under the Big Top: America Goes to the Circus Josephine Woll 5. Eisenstein'…
Commercial enterprise on the stage
THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC factors on the cultural sector is undisputed, if controversial, in capitalist societies. It is a particularly interesting phenomenon, however, in a country undergoing substantial changes in terms of both political and economic transition towards capitalism in a very short period of time. We therefore need to examine the impact of market economy and commercial structures on the Russian theatre, which for over 70 years has…
Russia on Reels
Beumers, B. (Ed.) (1999). Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. (First ed.) (KINO: The Russian Cinema Series). I.B. Tauris
Cinemarket, or the Russian Film Industry in 'Mission Possible
TIE SOVIET FILM INDUSTRY had always relied on the state to finance and distribute its films. State-run film studios would produce the film, employ directors, actors and technical personnel, provide all the facilities for shooting and editing, and take charge of the distribution to state-owned cinemas. Audience considerations were not crucial for the funding of a film, although until 1983 state investments in the film sector as a whole were not on…
Myth-making and Myth-taking
Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika had an enormous impact on the production and release of films dealing with Soviet history. The Stalinist totalitarianism of the 1930s in particular became the subject of many works in film, theatre and literature. In the late 1980s this concern was reflected in the form of an attempt to restore in the people's memory those pages of Soviet history which had been blotted out. In artistic terms this was expressed…
Burnt by the Sun
Nikita Mikhalkov’s film about the Stalin period has received wide attention inside and outside Russia, being shown at Cannes, winning an Oscar, and reaching cinemas worldwide. Mikhalkov is a fine and controversial director, and this “KINOfile” is a valuable introduction to his work. It investigates the production, context, and critical reception of the film, the people who made it, and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in Russ…
Russia on Reels
Soviet and Russian Blockbusters
In this introduction, Birgit Beumers explains the concept of the blockbuster, examining its emergence within the context of political upheavals in Soviet history. She then discusses the relation of the blockbuster to the question of genre and defines the blockbuster as a genre film, which follows certain conventions and thereby cradles the spectator in a (false) security. Beumers closes with a chronological survey of popular Soviet films that pro…
Nikita Mikhalkov
Adored by Russian audiences for his commercially-oriented films, and loathed by the Russian intelligentsia for the same, Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the most successful, ambitious and controversial film-directors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema. Revealing and discussing the key themes explored in his work, Birgit Beumers follows his career from his 1974 debut At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home; through to the French co-product…
Pop Culture Russia
A revealing look at contemporary Russian popular culture, exploring the historical and social influences that make it unique. Pop music is only one aspect of contemporary Russian culture that has taken some unexpected turns in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Television and advertising, theater and cinema, athletics and religion, even fashion and food now reflect more exposure to the West, yet remain in essence distinctively …
Pop Culture Russia
Beumers, B. (2005). Pop Culture Russia!: Media, Arts and Lifestyle. (Popular Culture in the Contemporary World). Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-CLIO
The Post-Soviet Russian Media
Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova Part One: Media, Politics and State 1. Free to get rich and fool around Ivan Zassoursky 2. Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era John A. Dunn 3. Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia Samuel A. Greene 4. The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape Tina Burrett Part 2…
Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema
Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema Stephen Norris 1. The Foreigner's Journey to Consciousness in Early Soviet Cinema: The Case of Protazanov's Tommi Julian Graffy 2. The Wise and Wicked Game: Re-Editing, Foreignness, and Soviet Film Culture of the Twenties Yuri Tsivian 3. Dressing the Part: Clothing Otherness in Soviet Cinema Before 1953 Emma Widdis 4. Under the Big Top: America Goes to the Circus Josephine Woll 5. Eisenstein'…
The Media in Russia
Martine Godet, La pellicule et les ciseaux
Le livre de Martine Godet sur la censure dans le cinéma soviétique couvre une période peu étudiée, qui va du Dégel à la perestroïka. S’il existe de nombreuses études sur le cinéma de l’époque stalinienne, de la perestroïka ou des années vingt, la période de la « stagnation » reste à découvrir. Dans ce contexte, cet ouvrage pourrait être une contribution importante à l’histoire de la politique culturelle et cinématographique des années soixante et…
The Performance of Life
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré lite…
National identity through visions of the past
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of p…
Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism
Symposium Editors' Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova * The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: Reflections of a Russian Journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina * The Next General Elections in Russia: What Role for the Media? Daphne Skillen * The Neo-Soviet Model of the Media Sarah Oates * Mass Media and the Information Climate in Russia Hedwig de Smaele * The Local and the International in Russian Business Journalism: St…
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores …
Art (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (12 works) · History (12 works) · Movie theater (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art history (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Politics (9 works)