The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016

Author:   Rimgaila Salys
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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9781618119636


Pages:   404
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
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Intended for English-speaking general interest and specialist students Useful both for contemporary Russian film and contemporary culture courses

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Author:   Rimgaila Salys
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781618119636


ISBN 10:   161811963
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Introduction: Russian Cinema in the Era of Globalization Vlad Strukov Dead Man’s Bluff (Aleksei Balabanov, 2005) Aleksandr Prokhorov The Sun (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 2005) Denise J. Youngblood Cargo 200 (dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 2007) Anthony Anemone Mermaid (dir. Anna Melikian, 2007) Helena Goscilo Hipsters (dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2008) Rimgaila Salys Silent Souls (dir. Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2010) Imaginary Documents: Inventing Traditions in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Cinema Serguey Oushakine The Smoke of the Fatherland: Body as Territory, Sexuality as Identity in Silent Souls Tatiana Mikhailova My Joy (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2010) Justin Wilmes Elena (dir. Andrei Zviagintsev, 2011) Andrei Zviagintsev: Unblinking Chronicler of Family Crisis and Human Frailty Julian Graffy Crime without Punishment? Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena between Art Cinema and Social Drama Elena Prokhorova The Target (dir. Aleksandr Zel′dovich, 2011) Ilya Kukulin The Horde (dir. Andrei Proshkin, 2012) Tomhomas Roberts Short Stories (dir. Mikhail Segal, 2012) Lost in Translation Mark Lipovetsky Tell Me What You Know about Russia? Liliia Nemchenko Legend Number 17 (dir. Nikolai Lebedev, 2013) Greg Dolgopolov Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013) God Complex Anton Dolin Aleksei German. From Realism to Modernism Elena Stishova Leviathan (dir. Andrei Zviagintsev, 2014) Julian Graffy The Land of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev, 2015) Liliia Nemchenko My Good Hans (dir. Aleksandr Mindadze, 2015) Steve Norris Paradise (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky, 2016) Jeremy Hicks Contributors

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All the films covered in the volume are discussed competently and with expert knowledge. The chapters follow a template with a general introduction and contextualization, a close reading, and some critical context. ... Overall, this is a welcome addition to a range of publications on contemporary cinema. The individual entries are all very competent, and attention has been paid to cater for a student audience through consistent contextual information. --Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan, Russian Review The editor's parameters for this collection are that it 'seeks to provide undergraduate students [in Russian cinema and culture courses] with an introduction to significant Russian films that are available with English subtitles.' ... Some of the chapters address films that are now well-trodden artifacts in contemporary film literature. These writings include informed and detailed synopses of the films, and offer perceptive discussions of their historical and production contexts. This is, of course, essential in a text ostensibly aimed at the uninitiated. ... the book under review is a useful, readable and often incisive, reference guide to recent 'Russian' cinema. --Steven A. Usitalo, Northern State University, Slavonic and East European Review


All the films covered in the volume are discussed competently and with expert knowledge. The chapters follow a template with a general introduction and contextualization, a close reading, and some critical context. ... Overall, this is a welcome addition to a range of publications on contemporary cinema. The individual entries are all very competent, and attention has been paid to cater for a student audience through consistent contextual information. --Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan, Russian Review


“All the films covered in the volume are discussed competently and with expert knowledge. The chapters follow a template with a general introduction and contextualization, a close reading, and some critical context. … Overall, this is a welcome addition to a range of publications on contemporary cinema. The individual entries are all very competent, and attention has been paid to cater for a student audience through consistent contextual information.” —Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan, Russian Review “The editor’s parameters for this collection are that it ‘seeks to provide undergraduate students [in Russian cinema and culture courses] with an introduction to significant Russian films that are available with English subtitles.’ … Some of the chapters address films that are now well-trodden artifacts in contemporary film literature. These writings include informed and detailed synopses of the films, and offer perceptive discussions of their historical and production contexts. This is, of course, essential in a text ostensibly aimed at the uninitiated. … the book under review is a useful, readable and often incisive, reference guide to recent ‘Russian’ cinema.” —Steven A. Usitalo, Northern State University, Slavonic and East European Review “The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader makes a solid argument for the study of Russian cinema beyond the context of Russian politics, described as an obsession with Putin in the introduction. Instead, cinema is treated as an integral and important part of Russian culture and society, as a medium for multi-layered and complex narratives, and mediating the contemporary experience of globalism. Lecturers in Slavic/Russian studies of film and/or culture, as well as in courses of global film and/or culture, will find material for their curriculum and class discussions in the volume, while students will get a comprehensive and insightful introduction to various aspects of contemporary Russian cinema. Naturally, any reader interested in contemporary Russian cinema and culture will no doubt find The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader enjoyable.” —Åsne Ø. Høgetveit, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe


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Rimgaila Salys is Professor of Russian Studies Emerita at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a specialist in twentieth-century film, literature, and art, and the author of the catalogue raisonn of Leonid Pasternak's Russian works (OUP) and a study of the musical comedy films of Grigorii Aleksandrov (Intellect Press and NLO). She is also the editor of a collection on Iurii Olesha's Envy (Northwestern University Press) and the memoirs of Josephine Pasternak (Slavica). Most recently, she has edited and contributed to the two volume Russian Cinema Reader for Academic Studies Press.

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