Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s : Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Stagnation Decay (Hardcover)

Introduction Part I Violating norms in Soviet serio-comic genres of the stagnation era 1. Character Doubles as a Symptom in Late Soviet Cinema 2. Antiheroes from an Imagined West: The Very Same Munchhausen and The House that Swift Built Part II Unsettling intergenerational harmony, professional integrity, and moral superiority 3. Teaching (by) Violence: Antiheroines in Ilya Averbakh’s Other People’s Letters 4. Aging Kings on the Soviet Screen: Disappointment and Self-Doubt in Stagnation-era Cinema Part III Dualism, conformism, and impotence 5. The Soviet Flaneur Turned Marathoner: The Movement of Character and the Character of Movement in Georgii Daneliia’s 1970s Films 6. Unneeded Men in a Time of Compliance: Split Identity in Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano and Flights in Dreams and Reality Part IV. Auteur films: through the lens of time, space, and allegory 7. Getting to Know the Big Wide World: The Shaggy, the Vulgar and the Bumptious 8. Deconstructing the Stalin Myth: Unheroic Heroes in the Films of Aleksei German, Sr.