Cinemasaurus : : Russian Film in Contemporary Context /

Cinemasaurus : : Russian Film in Contemporary Context / / ed. by Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova.

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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume’s contributors—the new generation of US scholars stu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Budenkova, Zhanna,
Condee, Nancy,
Crane, Robert,
Ezerova, Daria,
Graham, Seth,
Gray, Beach,
Kim, Olga,
Mukhortova, Olga,
Norris, Stephen M.,
Petrov, Petre,
Prokhorov, Alexander,
Prokhorova, Elena,
Saltykov, Denis,
Sattarova, Ellina,
Shlikhar, Tetyana,
Trimble, Theodora,
Wilmes, Justin,
Wilson, Trevor,
HerausgeberIn:
Condee, Nancy,
Prokhorov, Alexander,
Prokhorova, Elena,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Film and Media Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translations
  • Cinemasaurus: Introduction
  • Part One. Borders of Imperial Desire
  • Framing Essay
  • Introduction
  • 1. Imperial Fatigue: Somnambulants, Ghosts, and Monsters
  • 2. Empire Reloaded: Sacred Power in a Postmodern Era
  • 3. Russia’s Quiet Other: Dmitrii Mamuliia’s Another Sky and Aleksandr Kott’s The Test
  • Part Two. Hilarity and Horror
  • Framing Essay
  • Introduction
  • 4. Laughing Apocalypse: Horror and/as Comedy
  • 5. Eccentricity, Theatricality, and the Grotesque
  • 6. Privatized Violence in the New Russian Cinema
  • Part Three. Evropsk or Russia?
  • Framing Essay
  • Introduction
  • 7. Fragments of Empire: The Heartland in Post-Soviet Film
  • 8. Russia on the Margins?
  • 9. Contending Alterities: Drag Show, Roma Camp . . .
  • Part Four. The Ideological Occult
  • Framing Essay
  • Introduction
  • 10. Past, Present, and Posthumous Fathers: Cinepaternity Reloaded
  • 11. New Auteurism: The Case of Mikhalkov and Bekmambetov
  • 12. Elki: The Most Profitable Franchise of the Putin Era
  • Part Five. Interviews
  • 13. The Mediascape: Alexander Rodnyansky (CEO, AR Films, Non-Stop Production)
  • 14. The Festival: Sitora Alieva (Program Director, Kinotavr)
  • 15. The Exhibition Space: Paul Heth (CEO, Rising Star Media; Karo Film Holding)
  • 16. The Film Journal: Birgit Beumers (KinoKultura, UK)
  • 17. The Film Symposium: Vladimir Padunov (Russian Film Symposium, US)
  • Kino-Grafik
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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