Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translations
Cinemasaurus: Introduction
Framing Essay
1. Imperial Fatigue: Somnambulants, Ghosts, and Monsters Olga Kim
2. Empire Reloaded: Sacred Power in a Postmodern Era Justin Wilmes
3. Russia’s Quiet Other: Dmitrii Mamuliia’s Another Sky and Aleksandr Kott’s The Test Ellina Sattarova
Framing Essay Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova
4. Laughing Apocalypse: Horror and/as Comedy Daria Ezerova
5. Eccentricity, Theatricality, and the Grotesque Robert Crane
6. Privatized Violence in the New Russian Cinema Denis Saltykov
Framing Essay Seth Graham
7. Fragments of Empire: The Heartland in Post-Soviet Film Zhanna Budenkova
8. Russia on the Margins? Tetyana Shlikhar
9. Contending Alterities: Drag Show, Roma Camp
Framing Essay Petre Petrov
10. Past, Present, and Posthumous Fathers: Cinepaternity Reloaded Theodora Trimble
11. New Auteurism: The Case of Mikhalkov and Bekmambetov Olga Mukhortova
12. Elki: The Most Profitable Franchise of the Putin Era Beach Gray
13. The Mediascape: Alexander Rodnyansky (CEO, AR Films, Non-Stop Production)
14. The Festival: Sitora Alieva (Program Director, Kinotavr)
15. The Exhibition Space: Paul Heth (CEO, Rising Star Media; Karo Film Holding)
16. The Film Journal: Birgit Beumers (KinoKultura, UK)
17. The Film Symposium: Vladimir Padunov (Russian Film Symposium, US)
Kino-Grafik
Notes on the Contributors
Works Cited
Index