Igor Ustyuzhyn

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Igor Ustyuzhyn
Kharkov National University
ustyuzhyn@mail.ru
HESP Presentation (2012): The Thirty-First of June (Made in the USSR)
Course: BRITISH LITERATURE: SCREENED IN THE USSR
Since Lenin’s famous dictum “Cinema is the most important art for us” the Soviet ideology had
paid special attention to movies. For obvious reasons the censors were especially tough on film
directors who based their films on the books coming from the Capitalist camp.
We will see (and discuss) the way the Soviet Ministry of Education shaped the British literary
canon and what the film directors had to do in order to let their films go through the censorship.
The course is designed primarily for the students of History interested in the Soviet Civilization
and the students of Literature interested in the history of interpretation.
The aims of the course are to introduce students to influential texts and to teach them to read a
film.
SYLLABUS
Lecture 1: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
Part 1. Comedies.
Watch:
Двенадцатая ночь [Twelfth Night] (1955, Ленфильм. Реж. Ян Фрид).
Много шума из ничего [Much Ado About Nothing] (1973, Мосфильм).
Read:
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will (c.1602).
Much Ado About Nothing (c.1599).
Lecture 2. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
Part 2. Hamlet, «наш человек в Эльсиноре» [our man in Elsinore].
Watch:
Гамлет [Hamlet] (1964, Ленфильм. Реж.
Б. Пастернак).
Read:
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Г. Козинцев,
сценарий:
Г. Козинцев,
Lecture 3: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
Watch:
Новые приключения Гулливера [New Gulliver’s Travels] (1935, Мосфильм. Реж.
А. Птушко).
Дом, который построил Свифт [The House that Swift Built] (1982, реж. Марк Захаров).
Read:
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a
Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (1726).
Lecture 4: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816).
Watch:
Школа злословия [School for Malignant Gossip] (1952, спектакль МХАТ).
Read:
School for Scandal (1777).
Lecture 5: Walter Sсott (1771 - 1832).
Watch:
Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго [The Ballad about the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe] (1982,
Мосфильм, реж. С. Тарасов).
Read:
Ivanhoe (1820).
Lecture 6. Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898).
Watch:
Алиса в стране чудес [Alice in Wonderland] (1981, Киевнаучфильм, мульт., реж.
Е. Пружанский).
Алиса в Зазеркалье [Alice behind the Mirror] (1982, Киевнаучфильм, мульт., реж.
Е. Пружанский).
Read:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
Lecture 7. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
Watch:
Приключения принца Флоризеля [The Adventures of Prince Florizel] (1979, реж.
Е. Татарский).
Read:
The Suicide Club (1882).
The Rajah’s Diamond (1882).
Lecture 8. Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927).
Watch:
Трое в лодке, не считая собаки [Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog ) ] (1979,
Ленфильм. Реж. Н. Бирман).
Read:
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889).
Lecture 9. “Lilia” Voynich (1864 - 1960).
Watch:
Овод [The Gadfly ] (1955, Ленфильм, реж. А. Файнциммер).
Овод [The Gadfly ] (1980, киност. им. Довженко, реж. Н. Мащенко).
Read:
The Gadfly (1897).
Lecture 10. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
Watch:
Преступление Лорда Артура [Lord Arthur’s Crime] (1991).
Read:
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (1887).
Lecture 11. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).
Watch:
Маугли [Mowgli] (1967 – 1971, мульт, 5 серий, реж. Р. Давыдов).
Read:
The Jungle Book (1894).
Lecture 12. Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956).
Watch:
Винни-Пух [Winnie-the-Pooh] (мульт, 3 серии, реж. Ф. Хитрук, 1969-1972).
Read:
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).
Lecture 13. William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
Watch:
Театр [Theatre] (1978, Рижская киност., реж. Я. Стрейч).
Read:
Theatre (1937).
Lecture 14. John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984).
Part 1.
Watch:
Опасный поворот [Dangerous Turn] (1972, Мосфильм, реж. В. Басов).
Read:
Dangerous Corner (1932).
Lecture 15. John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984).
Part 2.
Watch:
31 июня [The Thirty-First of June] (1978, Мосфильм, реж. Л. Квинихидзе).
Read:
The Thirty-First of June (1961).
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Besides reading the corresponding primary sources students are encouraged to consult the
following literature:
Billington, James. The Icon and the Axe. An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. New York:
Vintage, 1970.
Блум, Гарольд. Західний канон. Киів: Факт, 2007.
Boyce, Charles. Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. A to Z of his life and Works
Volosova T., Hecker, M., Rogoff V. English Literature. Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1974.
Гражданская, З. Т. От Шекспира до Шоу. Москва : Просвещение, 1982.
История Английской литературы. Москва: АН СССР, 1953-1955. Т.1,2.
Кузнецова, Валентина С., ред. England. History, Geography, Culture. – Киев : Вища Школа,
1976.
Мортон, А.Л. От Мэлори до Элиота. Москва: Прогресс, 1970.
Cинявский, Андрей. Основы советской цивилизации. Москва: Аграф, 2001.
Урнов, М. Р.Л. Стивенсон. Жизнь и творчество // Стивенсон, Р.Л. Собрание сочинений в
пяти томах. Т.1. Москва: Правда, 1981. – С. 3-52.
Holden, Lynn. Encyclopedia of Taboos. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Hecker, M., Volosova T., Doroshevich A. English Literature. Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1975.