Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context
Editat de Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorovaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 apr 2020
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-à-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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781644692707
ISBN-10: 1644692708
Pagini: 330
Ilustrații: 45
Dimensiuni: 229 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Academic Studies Press
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
ISBN-10: 1644692708
Pagini: 330
Ilustrații: 45
Dimensiuni: 229 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Academic Studies Press
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
Cuprins
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsForeword
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
Recenzii
“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.”
—David MacFadyen, University of California, Los Angeles, Studies in European Cinema
“As well as being seen as treasure-/storehouse, Cinemasaurus may be likened to a mosaic, and one in which some of the most scintillating fragments are to be found in the framing essays. Petre Petrov provides a brilliant reading of the reclamation of a defunct space station in the space drama Saliut-7 as allegory of the attempted restoration of the imperial project in recent Russian cinema, while Nancy Condee offers the most intellectually bracing and linguistically vivacious writing in the entire volume in her introduction to the cluster of essays on empire. In its broad intellectual ambition, and in the consistently informed and incisive essays of the young scholars whom she has nurtured, this handsomely produced volume is also a salute to her own inestimable contribution to our understanding of contemporary Russian cinema and society.”
—Julian Graffy, University College London, Russian Review
—David MacFadyen, University of California, Los Angeles, Studies in European Cinema
“As well as being seen as treasure-/storehouse, Cinemasaurus may be likened to a mosaic, and one in which some of the most scintillating fragments are to be found in the framing essays. Petre Petrov provides a brilliant reading of the reclamation of a defunct space station in the space drama Saliut-7 as allegory of the attempted restoration of the imperial project in recent Russian cinema, while Nancy Condee offers the most intellectually bracing and linguistically vivacious writing in the entire volume in her introduction to the cluster of essays on empire. In its broad intellectual ambition, and in the consistently informed and incisive essays of the young scholars whom she has nurtured, this handsomely produced volume is also a salute to her own inestimable contribution to our understanding of contemporary Russian cinema and society.”
—Julian Graffy, University College London, Russian Review