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Introduction / Michael A. Denner

Part I. "Father Sergius"

The swansong of early Russian cinema: Iakov Protazanov's Father Sergius (1918) / Denise J. Youngblood

Part II. Resurrection

"A free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel": D. W. Griffith's Resurrection and American commercial cinema / Vance Kepley

Beyond the melodrama of Kachusha-mono: Mizoguchi's Straits of love and hate (Aien kyo

1937) / Rie Karatsu

Mikhail Shveitser's Resurrection (1960, 1962): film adaptation as thaw narrative / David Gillespie

Part III. The living corpse

When we dead awaken: a living corpse as a moving picture / William Nickell

Part IV. War and peace

Natasha at the opera: cinematic treatments of performance in Tolstoy's War and peace / Sharon Marie Carnicke

Tolstoy's comrades: Sergei Bondarchuk's War and peace (1966-67) and the origins of Brezhnev culture / Stephen M. Norris

Tolstoy transnational: Dornhelm's adaptation of War and peace for television (2007) / Christine Engel

Part V. The Kreutzer sonata

Visualizing ambiguity: two Italian adaptations of the Kreutzer sonata / Paolo Noto

Part VI. "The death of Ivan Il'ich"

Out of breath: Bernard Rose's Ivans xtc. (2000) and Tolstoy's "The death of Ivan Il'ich" / Amy Mandelker

Part VII. "A prisoner of the Caucasus"

Inverting the imperial dyad: post-Soviet screen adaptations of Tolstoy's "A prisoner of the Caucasus" / Vlad Strukov and Sarah Hudspith

Part VIII. Anna Karenina

Screening Anna Karenina: myth via novel or novel via myth / Irina Makoveeva

Anna in Almaty: Darejan Omirbaev's Shuga (2007) / Alyssa Deblasio

Adaptation in contexts: a tale of two Annas / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy.

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