Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume 1

Table of Contents

Description

Each of this two-volume series presents seven films in historical order. Each chapter focuses on one film and includes assignments ranging from Intermediate to Advanced Plus proficiency according to the ACTFL guidelines.

Features

While the books main purpose is to development conversation skills, each chapter includes texts for reading comprehension and exercises that focus on the acquisition of written skills and grammatical accuracy.

Market

The modular structure allows instructors to select the films according to the student’s interests and course goals, as textbooks or as supplemental materials for classes at various levels.

You may purchase the films on Amazon.com by following the links below
taken from the Table of Contents

Tsirk - Circus
Zolushka - Cinderella
Letyat zhuravli - The Cranes Are Flying
Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu - Ivan Vasiljevich Changes Profession
Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom! - Irony of Fate
Moskva Slezam Ne Verit - Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Osenniy marafon - Autumn Marathon

About the Authors

Olga Kagan is coordinator of the undergraduate Russian Program at UCLA. She is the author and co-author of numerous successful Russian textbooks, including the Focus edition Lidiya Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna.

Mara Kashper teaches Russian at Barnard College/Columbia University and is the co-author of Lidiya Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna and another Focus title: Reading and Speaking about Russian Newspapers.

Yuliya Morozova is a graduate student at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.

Reviews

      As language instructors, we have all used film in our classes to improve the linguistic and cultural proficiency of our students. A few textbooks include clips from Russian cinema with some exercises fro comprehension and discussion; however, until now there has been no text which deals exclusively with film as a language and culture acquisition tool. Cinema for Russian Conversation has now filled this void with a two-volume series... The choice of films is excellent: they are classics, dating from 1936-1979, seen and loved by Russian audiences, and they include a variety of genres (musical comedy, fairy tale, drama, comedy and melodrama).... the content of each exercise is varied so as not to become repetitive. All the directions for the exercises are given in clear and concise Russian (absolutely essential for students). The text is in modular form so that one need not cover all the films in the order in which they appear in the book. One could "pick and choose" the films to coincide with the content and focus of the course.

     Cinema for Russian Conversation is an excellent addition to available materials for use in the classroom of a language, culture, film, or conversation course.

     ~Slavic and East European Journal, Volume 49, #4, Winter 2005.

 

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