{"product_id":"monuments-askew-1","title":"Monuments Askew","description":"\u003ci\u003eMonuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMonuments Askew \u003c\/i\u003ereveals 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, \u003ci\u003eMonuments Askew \u003c\/i\u003eshows how FEKS’s body of work inspires an eccentric realignment of the pillars of Soviet visual culture, and indeed of monumentality itself.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54615723213144,"sku":"9781978843028","price":108.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781978843028_bab367a5-3780-4593-8752-ff0d69cd92cf.jpg?v=1779515128","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/monuments-askew-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}