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David Gillespie
David Gillespie has recently been appointed Professor in Russian at the University of Bath, where he has taught since 1985. He has published critical studies of the writers Valentin Rasputin, Iurii Trifonov and Fedor Abramov, and his book Russian Cinema was published by Longman in 2002. Recent and ongoing research includes: Russian science fiction movies; Russian film adaptations of Shakespeare; surrealist motifs in Russian film; postmodernist irony in the prose of Evgenii Popov; masculinity in the films of Sergei Eisenstein; the transformation of landscape in Russian film and art; Renata Litvinova and femininity in post-Soviet film.