Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students
About this ebook
Russian through Film builds on students’ listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding their cultural literacy. The textbook aims at improving learners’ ability to analyze films by carefully investigating the films’ plot, structure, conflicts, and main characters. Through task-based, inquiry-based, and project-based activities, the textbook focuses on developing learners’ skills in various modes of discourse (narration, description, comparison, explanation, and summary).
The textbook can serve as a primary text for a course on contemporary Russian films or a supplementary textbook in intermediate and advanced level classes. Separate chapters may be included in thematic classes on youth culture, Soviet history, sports, geography, folklore, contemporary social issues, and the arts.
About the author
Anna Kudyma is Senior Lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and academic coordinator of the university’s Russian Flagship program.
Irina Six is Assistant Teaching Professor in Russian at the University of Kansas (USA), and a Russian Language Program Coordinator.
Irina Walsh is Lecturer in Russian at Bryn Mawr College (USA), and co-director of the college’s Russian Flagship program.
