Aleksandr Askoldov

Aleksandr AskoldovFilmed in 1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, it tells of a female Red Army commissar who is forced to stay with a Jewish family near the frontlines of the battle between the Red and White Armies as she waits to give birth. The film drew the ire of censors for its frank portrayal of the violence

idiosyncratic and conceptually rich cinema

attempts to pick up the pieces following the death of his father

The Divine Comedy is a highly influential poem that has dazzled readers for over five centuries

In this theoretical survey

the study analyses how they conceive of stories as important

is another dazzling volume of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet

Though the two nations share considerable cultural and economic connections

a representative of the common so-called civilised but self-destructive and self-loving western world

Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research brings together current scholarly debates about how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research

new methods of teaching

The book frames the tradition of living dead films

aesthetic construction and reception