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

Author:   Birgit Beumers ,  Eugenie Zvonkine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367876579


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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This 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.

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Author:   Birgit Beumers ,  Eugenie Zvonkine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367876579


ISBN 10:   0367876574
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments & 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 War

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Birgit Beumers is Professor of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University. Eugénie Zvonkine is an Associate Professor of Cinema at the University of Paris 8.

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