Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges

David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of Èl'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky.

"A significant contribution to our understanding of Soviet animation through the prism of phenomenology. This daring approach also reveals the author's profound knowledge of the difficult fate of alternative Western philosophies in the Soviet Union." Christina Stojanova, assistant professor, Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University "This will be a key reference text for university courses in Russian film studies and also animation courses in general." Esther Leslie, The School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London