{"product_id":"monuments-askew","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":"Maria Corrigan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54995196084604,"sku":"9781978843011","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781978843011.jpg?v=1743764351","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/monuments-askew","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}