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Fedorov, Alexander (2011). Russian Image on the Western Screen: Trends, Stereotypes, Myths, Illusions. Saarbrucken (Germany): Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011, 228 p.

http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Western-Screen-Alexander-Fedorov/dp/3843393303/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294911647&sr=1-1

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT…[Read more]

Following our earlier discussion of what happens after the UK Film Council closes and the Regional Screen Agencies are wound up, everything has been revealed this week with Ed Vaizey’s speech. The RSAs are to be replaced by a new agency ‘Creative England’ with three regional bases in the North, Midlands and South. Meanwhile, Film London is…[Read more]

Arguably the remakes advertise the originals-My Media AS students really liked ‘Let the right one in’ (the first subtitled film they’d seen) and now are quite scathing about ‘let me in’. As you say It’s us that can introduce them to the films- I’ve deliberately used foreign language films this year to introduce film language (Including…[Read more]

Is anyone else as pissed off as I am with the current spate of Hollywood remakes of successful films from other cultures? They are so unnecessary and the only justification seems to be that they enable people who can’t/won’t read subtitles to get access to the original stories. Perhaps we (film teachers) are responsible for this sorry state of…[Read more]