Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema : Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments & Note on Transliteration Contributor Details List of Illustrations Introduction Re-construction, or perestroika: re-visioning, re-making, re-framing Birgit Beumers and Eugenie Zvonkine Part I. Styles 1 Perestroika and Parallel Cinema Boris Yukhananov 2 Soviet Comedies for ‘Our Time’: Cinematic Remaking in 21st-Century Russia Victoria Donovan 3 The Journey of a Film: Aleksei Gherman’s Hard to Be a God, 1968?2013 Eugenie Zvonkine 4 ‘Waiting for Change’: Sergei Solov'ev and the Dreams of the Young Generation Birgit Beumers Part II. Characters 5 The Prostitute as Everywoman: The Role and Evolution of the Sex Worker in Russian Cinema Emily Schuckman Matthews 6 ‘Thank God We’re Not Alive’: The Rock Star in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema. Rita Safariants 7 Neither Here, Nor There: The Trickster in the Cinema of Perestroika and the Early 1990s Mark Lipovetsky 8 ‘We’ll meet in Tahiti’: The Traveller between East and West in Russian Films of the 1990s Julian Graffy Part III. Genres 9 Reality Excess: Chernukha Cinema in the Late 1980s Volha Isakava 10 A Genre in Crisis? Satirical Comedy during Perestroika Otto Boele 11 Articulating Dissonance between Man and the Cosmos: Soviet Scientific Fantasy in the 1980s and its Legacy Natalija Majsova 12 Revising History, Remaking Heroes: Soviet-Russian Cinema and the Civil War Stephen M. Norris