1922
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archival research
art
artistic legacies
artistic movements
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cinematic culture.
circus
collaborative partnerships
collaborative vision
collective history
cultural history
cultural rebellion
detective films
drama
early film history
eccentric comedy
Eccentrism
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Factory of the Eccentric Actor
FEKS
film studies
Grigory Kozintsev
Hollywood slapstick
kino-eye
Leonid Trauberg
media
media studies
montage
Monuments Askew
political potential
Russia
russian empire
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Gerasimov
Soviet cinema
Soviet cinema canon
textual analysis
theater
theatre
Ukraine
Ukrainian teenagers
ukranian
United States
Product details
- ISBN 9781978843011
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
MARIA CORRIGAN is an assistant professor in the College in the Visual and Media Arts Department and Comedic Arts Program at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
