Stephen Hutchings is Chair in Russian Studies in the Department of Russian Studies, University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The World as Image (2004), and co-editor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Screen Adaptations of Literature: Screening the World (co-edited with Anat Vernistki, 2004), both published by Routledge.
Natalia Rulyova is Lecturer in Russian at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.