Cinemasaurus
Russian Film in Contemporary Context
Published on 14. April 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-64469-271-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 studying Russian cinema-examine four issues of Russia's transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the emergence of a film market and its new genres, (3) Russia's uneven integration into European values and hierarchies, (4) the renegotiation of state power vis-a-vis arthouse and independent cinemas. An introductory essay frames each of the four sections, with 90 films total under discussion, concluding with a historical timeline and five interviews of key film-industry figures formative of the historical context.
Reviews / Votes
"With these crisscrossing themes and trajectories, Cinemasaurus carefully traces a nuanced picture of multiple, often contradictory, tendencies in Russian film today. It looks equally to the past and future; and it investigates features both little and large, both peripheral and imperial. For these reasons, the editors and contributors are to be congratulated alike. Ideally suited to cinema survey classes, Cinemasaurus will offer clarity to both students and scholars, and it will prompt substantial future research." - Studies in European Cinema"In its broad intellectual ambition, and in the consistently informed and incisive essays of the young scholars whom [Condee] has nurtured, this handsomely produced volume is also a salute to her own inestimable contribution to our understanding of contemporary Russian cinema and society." - Russian Review
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Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
681 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64469-271-4 (9781644692714)
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Russian Film in Contemporary Context
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Persons
Nancy Condee is Director of University of Pittsburgh's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center, a Title VI Center.
Alexander Prokhorov teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.
Elena Prokhorova teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.
Alexander Prokhorov teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.
Elena Prokhorova teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.
Content
List of Illustrations
Foreword Stephen M. Norris
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translations
Cinemasaurus: Introduction Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova
Part One. Borders of Imperial Desire
Framing Essay Nancy Condee
1. Imperial Fatigue: Somnambulants, Ghosts, and Monsters Olga Kim
2. Empire Reloaded: Sacred Power in a Postmodern Era Justin Wilmes
3. Russia's Quiet Other: Dmitrii Mamuliia's Another Sky and Aleksandr Kott's The Test
Ellina Sattarova
Part Two. Hilarity and Horror
Framing Essay Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova
4. Laughing Apocalypse: Horror and/as Comedy Daria Ezerova
5. Eccentricity, Theatricality, and the Grotesque Robert Crane
6. Privatized Violence in the New Russian Cinema Denis Saltykov
Part Three. Evropsk or Russia?
Framing Essay Seth Graham
7. Fragments of Empire: The Heartland in Post-Soviet Film Zhanna Budenkova
8. Russia on the Margins? Tetyana Shlikhar
8. Contending Alterities: Drag Show, Roma Camp . . . Trevor Wilson
Part Four. The Ideological Occult
Framing Essay Petre Petrov
9. Past, Present, and Posthumous Fathers: Cinepaternity Reloaded Theodora Trimble
10. New Auteurism: The Case of Mikhalkov and Bekmambetov Olga Mukhortova
11. Elki: The Most Profitable Franchise of the Putin Era Beach Gray
Part Five. Interviews
12. The Mediascape: Alexander Rodnyansky (CEO, AR Films, Non-Stop Production)
13. The Festival: Sitora Alieva (Program Director, Kinotavr)
14. The Exhibition Space: Paul Heth (CEO, Rising Star Media; Karo Film Holding)
15. The Film Journal: Birgit Beumers (KinoKultura, UK)
16. The Film Symposium: Vladimir Padunov (Russian Film Symposium, US)
Kino-Grafik
Notes on the Contributors
Works Cited
Index
Foreword Stephen M. Norris
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translations
Cinemasaurus: Introduction Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova
Part One. Borders of Imperial Desire
Framing Essay Nancy Condee
1. Imperial Fatigue: Somnambulants, Ghosts, and Monsters Olga Kim
2. Empire Reloaded: Sacred Power in a Postmodern Era Justin Wilmes
3. Russia's Quiet Other: Dmitrii Mamuliia's Another Sky and Aleksandr Kott's The Test
Ellina Sattarova
Part Two. Hilarity and Horror
Framing Essay Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova
4. Laughing Apocalypse: Horror and/as Comedy Daria Ezerova
5. Eccentricity, Theatricality, and the Grotesque Robert Crane
6. Privatized Violence in the New Russian Cinema Denis Saltykov
Part Three. Evropsk or Russia?
Framing Essay Seth Graham
7. Fragments of Empire: The Heartland in Post-Soviet Film Zhanna Budenkova
8. Russia on the Margins? Tetyana Shlikhar
8. Contending Alterities: Drag Show, Roma Camp . . . Trevor Wilson
Part Four. The Ideological Occult
Framing Essay Petre Petrov
9. Past, Present, and Posthumous Fathers: Cinepaternity Reloaded Theodora Trimble
10. New Auteurism: The Case of Mikhalkov and Bekmambetov Olga Mukhortova
11. Elki: The Most Profitable Franchise of the Putin Era Beach Gray
Part Five. Interviews
12. The Mediascape: Alexander Rodnyansky (CEO, AR Films, Non-Stop Production)
13. The Festival: Sitora Alieva (Program Director, Kinotavr)
14. The Exhibition Space: Paul Heth (CEO, Rising Star Media; Karo Film Holding)
15. The Film Journal: Birgit Beumers (KinoKultura, UK)
16. The Film Symposium: Vladimir Padunov (Russian Film Symposium, US)
Kino-Grafik
Notes on the Contributors
Works Cited
Index