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.
Author(s): Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova
Series: Film and Media Studies
Edition: 1
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: Boston
Tags: Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Cinema, Russian Cinema, Russian Films, Film Theory
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translations
Cinemasaurus: Introduction
Framing Essay
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
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
Framing Essay Seth Graham
7. Fragments of Empire: The Heartland in Post-Soviet Film Zhanna Budenkova
8. Russia on the Margins? Tetyana Shlikhar
9. Contending Alterities: Drag Show, Roma Camp
Framing Essay Petre Petrov
10. Past, Present, and Posthumous Fathers: Cinepaternity Reloaded Theodora Trimble
11. New Auteurism: The Case of Mikhalkov and Bekmambetov Olga Mukhortova
12. Elki: The Most Profitable Franchise of the Putin Era Beach Gray
13. The Mediascape: Alexander Rodnyansky (CEO, AR Films, Non-Stop Production)
14. The Festival: Sitora Alieva (Program Director, Kinotavr)
15. The Exhibition Space: Paul Heth (CEO, Rising Star Media; Karo Film Holding)
16. The Film Journal: Birgit Beumers (KinoKultura, UK)
17. The Film Symposium: Vladimir Padunov (Russian Film Symposium, US)
Kino-Grafik
Notes on the Contributors
Works Cited
Index
