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    Monuments Askew by Corrigan, Maria;

    An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor

    Series: Media Matters;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Rutgers University Press
    • Date of Publication 31 August 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback with laminated cover

    • ISBN 9781978843028
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages180 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 30 B-W images
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    Monuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor presents a cultural history of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), an avant-garde collective of Ukrainian artists whose unique approach to monumental history generated a new kind of cinema for a modernizing Soviet era. Often lost in the shuffle of this period, FEKS’s vibrant and experimental cinematic output initiated a youthful and cheeky overhaul of Soviet revolutionary culture. Monuments Askew reveals the foundational role of this understudied group of artists-including Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg-and uses their own theoretical contributions to undo the “foundations” of our understanding of Soviet media and arts. As a counter to a solely cinema-focused conceptualization of this era, Corrigan develops a transnational media theory of eccentricity. Defining eccentric circles as warped, irregular orbits that force a realignment of centers, Monuments Askew shows how FEKS’s body of work inspires an eccentric realignment of the pillars of Soviet visual culture, and indeed of monumentality itself.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Filmography
    List of Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Eccentric Interlude: Kozintsev’s Inner Movement
    1. “The Technique-Circus. The Psychology-Head over Heels”: FEKS’s First Somersault in Cinema
    Eccentric Interlude: Trauberg Inside Out
    2. The Devil’s Wheel: The Flight from Center
    Eccentric Interlude: Actors
    3. FEKS’s Overcoat and Eccentrism’s Protagonist
    Eccentric Interlude: Split
    4. The Trickster: S.V.D. and Eccentrism’s Counter-rebel
    Conclusion: Eccentric Archives
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

    Abbreviations ix
    Introduction: Eccentrism as Method 1
    Eccentric Interlude: Kozintsev’s
    Inner Movement 17
    1 “The Technique-Circus.
    The Psychology-
    Head
    over Heels”: FEKS’s First Somersault in Cinema 25
    Eccentric Interlude: Trauberg Inside Out 47
    2 The Devil’s
    Wheel: The Flight from Center 57
    Eccentric Interlude: Actors 71
    3 FEKS’s Overcoat and Eccentrism’s Protagonist 79
    Eccentric Interlude: Split 101
    4 The Trickster: Eccentrism’s Counter-Rebel
    111
    Conclusion: Eccentric Archives 124
    Acknowledgments
    127
    Notes 129
    Bibliography 145
    Filmography 153
    Index 000

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