ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
Styles
part II|75 pages
Characters
chapter 5|19 pages
The prostitute as everywoman
The role and evolution of the sex worker in Russian cinema
chapter 7|18 pages
Neither here, nor there
The trickster in the cinema of perestroika and the early 1990s
chapter 8|18 pages
‘We’ll meet in Tahiti’
Travellers between East and West in Russian films of the 1990s
part III|74 pages
Genres
chapter 11|17 pages
Articulating dissonance between man and the cosmos
Soviet scientific fantasy in the 1980s and its legacy