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OverviewThis book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that, whereas genres shifted and characters developed, stylistic choices remained largely unaffected. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Birgit Beumers , Eugenie ZvonkinePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367876579ISBN 10: 0367876574 Pages: 226 Publication Date: 12 December 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments & Note on Transliteration Contributor Details List of Illustrations Introduction Re-construction, or perestroika: re-visioning, re-making, re-framing Birgit Beumers and Eugénie Zvonkine Part I. Styles 1 Perestroika and Parallel Cinema 2 Soviet Comedies for ‘Our Time’: Cinematic Remaking in 21st-Century Russia 3 The Journey of a Film: Aleksei Gherman’s Hard to Be a God, 1968–2013 4 ‘Waiting for Change’: Sergei Solov'ev and the Dreams of the Young Generation Part II. Characters 5 The Prostitute as Everywoman: The Role and Evolution of the Sex Worker in Russian Cinema 6 ‘Thank God We’re Not Alive’: The Rock Star in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema. 7 Neither Here, Nor There: The Trickster in the Cinema of Perestroika and the Early 1990s 8 ‘We’ll meet in Tahiti’: The Traveller between East and West in Russian Films of the 1990s Part III. Genres 9 Reality Excess: Chernukha Cinema in the Late 1980s 10 A Genre in Crisis? Satirical Comedy during Perestroika 11 Articulating Dissonance between Man and the Cosmos: Soviet Scientific Fantasy in the 1980s and its Legacy 12 Revising History, Remaking Heroes: Soviet-Russian Cinema and the Civil WarReviewsAuthor InformationBirgit Beumers is Professor of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University. Eugénie Zvonkine is an Associate Professor of Cinema at the University of Paris 8. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |