The Films of Aleksandr Rou : Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema

films of Alexander Rou, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific and inventive filmmakers of the genre. Deborah Allison's always engaging and enjoyable writing provides the cultural and technical contexts as she reveals the features that make up Rou's personal style, whilst also highlighting the narratives, actors and special effects in Rou's work. To put it in fairy-tale language: this is a beautifully woven carpet, whose intricate pattern emerges as we read and takes us on a flight into Rou's fairy-tale world.'-Birgit Beumers, professor emerita in film studies, Aberystwyth University [Publisher's text]

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