{"product_id":"9781978843011-monuments-askew","title":"Monuments Askew","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56127981748598,"sku":"9781978843011","price":20.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35844114_da2b772a-c98c-4cec-a246-0b523ef5bd17.jpg?v=1756339027","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781978843011-monuments-askew","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}