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.
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Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9781644692714
Author Nancy Condee
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Academic Studies Press
Publisher Academic Studies Press
Series Film and Media Studies
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9781644692714
Author Nancy Condee
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Academic Studies Press
Publisher Academic Studies Press
Series Film and Media Studies
