Cinemasaurus : Russian Film in Contemporary Context
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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse.
Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume''s contributors-the new generation of US scholars studying Russian cinema—examine four issues of Russia’s transition:
- Its imperial legacy
- The emergence of a film market and its new genres
- Russia’s uneven integration into European values and hierarchies
- The renegotiation of state power vis-àagrave;-vis arthouse and independent cinemas.
“This is one of the most exciting books on contemporary Russian cinema out there. It brims with bold conceptual innovations, including the notion of exploring its subject through three key institutions that have mediated our experience of it: the Kinotavr Film Festival; the journal KinoKultura, and the annual Pittsburg Film Symposium. Eschewing conventional categorizations of that subject in terms of periods, socio-cultural themes or genres, it offers a new prism through which to view it—one based on visual practices resonant with patterns and tensions which provide the reader with a navigation tool likely to remain productive for decades. Above all, Cinemasaurus gives a platform to twelve highly promising younger scholars whose brilliant insights are framed by short essays penned by some of the very best names in the field. Together they succeed brilliantly in explaining the sense of strange familiarity that Russian films frequently elicit in their anglophone audiences.” —Stephen Hutchings, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester
—Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University
“The result of several decades of persistent and passionate work of a whole pleiad of brilliant contemporary Russian film scholars of different generations, this truly distinct and completely peerless book offers a systematic version of the real intellectual and visual feasts that are the Kinotavr, KinoKultura, and the Russian Film Symposium. This is a unique guide in the complex world of modern Russian cinema, post-Soviet sensitivity, identity and values. The film material is approached here with post-modern sensibility, but without post-modern jargon, which makes for a sophisticated yet accessible analysis.”
—Evgeny Dobrenko, University of Sheffield
—Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University
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