Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader

Rimgaila Salys is Professor of Russian Studies Emerita at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a specialist in twentieth-century film, literature, and art, and the author of the catalogue raisonné of Leonid Pasternak’s Russian works (OUP) and a study of the musical comedy films of Grigorii Aleksandrov (Intellect Press and NLO). She is also the editor of a collection on Iurii Olesha’s Envy (Northwestern University Press) and the memoirs of Josephine Pasternak (Slavica). Most recently, she has edited and contributed to the two volume Russian Cinema Reader for Academic Studies Press.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Russian Cinema in the Era of GlobalizationVlad StrukovDead Man’s Bluff (Aleksei Balabanov, 2005)Aleksandr ProkhorovThe Sun (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 2005)Denise J. YoungbloodCargo 200 (dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 2007)Anthony AnemoneMermaid (dir. Anna Melikian, 2007)Helena GosciloHipsters (dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2008)Rimgaila SalysSilent Souls (dir. Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2010)Imaginary Documents: Inventing Traditions in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s CinemaSerguey OushakineThe Smoke of the Fatherland: Body as Territory, Sexuality as Identity in Silent SoulsTatiana MikhailovaMy Joy (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2010)Justin WilmesElena (dir. Andrei Zviagintsev, 2011)Andrei Zviagintsev: Unblinking Chronicler of Family Crisis and Human FrailtyJulian GraffyCrime without Punishment? Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena between Art Cinema and SocialDramaElena ProkhorovaThe Target (dir. Aleksandr Zel′dovich, 2011)Ilya KukulinThe Horde (dir. Andrei Proshkin, 2012)Tomhomas RobertsShort Stories (dir. Mikhail Segal, 2012)Lost in TranslationMark LipovetskyTell Me What You Know about Russia?Liliia NemchenkoLegend Number 17 (dir. Nikolai Lebedev, 2013)Greg DolgopolovHard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013)God ComplexAnton DolinAleksei German. From Realism to ModernismElena StishovaLeviathan (dir. Andrei Zviagintsev, 2014)Julian GraffyThe Land of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev, 2015)Liliia NemchenkoMy Good Hans (dir. Aleksandr Mindadze, 2015)Steve NorrisParadise (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky, 2016)Jeremy HicksContributors

“All the films covered in the volume are discussed competently and with expert knowledge. The chapters follow a template with a general introduction and contextualization, a close reading, and some critical context. … Overall, this is a welcome addition to a range of publications on contemporary cinema. The individual entries are all very competent, and attention has been paid to cater for a student audience through consistent contextual information.” —Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan, Russian Review