9 Chasing the Wealth: The Americanization of Il’f and Petrov’s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on the Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Filming Russian Classics—Challenges and Opportunities 1
6. 1 Across the Russian Border 17
7. 2 Dostoevskii’s “White Nights”: The Dreamer Goes Abroad 40
8. 3 On Not Showing Dostoevskii’s Work: Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket 64
9. 4 Stealing the Scene: Crime as Confession in Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket 85
10. 5 The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly 102
11. 6 “A Vicious Circle”: Karen Shakhnazarov’s Ward no. 6 121
12. 7 A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences 140
13. 8 Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe 165
14. 9 Chasing the Wealth: The Americanization of Il’f and Petrov’s 188
15. 10 Fassbinder’s Nabokov—From Text to Action: Repressed Homosexuality, Provocative Jewishness, and Anti-German Sentiment 202
16. 11 “The Soviet Abroad (That We Lost)”: The Fate of Vasilii Aksenov’s Cult Novel A Starry Ticket on Paper and on Screen 223
17. Conclusion: Passport Control—Departing on a Cinematic Journey 239
18. Bibliography 265
19. Filmography 281
20. Index 288