The Russian Cinema Reader (Volume II)

<p><b>This two-volume reader consists of newly commissioned essays excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture.</b> </p><p><i>These volumes are intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. </i></p><p>The arrangement is chronological: <b>Volume one</b> covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; <b>Volume two</b> covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema Soviet Silent Cinema Stalinist Cinema Cinema of the Thaw Cinema of Stagnation Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema) outline its cinematic significance and provide historical context for the non-specialist reader. Essays are accompanied by suggestions for further reading. The reader will be useful both for film studies specialists and for Slavists who wish to broaden their Russian Studies curriculum by incorporating film courses or culture courses with cinematic material. Volumes one and two may be ordered separately to accommodate the timeframe and contents of courses. </p><p><b>Volume one films</b>: Sten'ka Razin The Cameraman’s Revenge The Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter Child of the Big City The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks Battleship Potemkin Bed and Sofa Man with a Movie Camera Earth Chapaev Circus Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II. </p><p><b>Volume two films</b>: The Cranes are Flying Ballad of a Soldier Lenin’s Guard Wings Commissar The Diamond Arm White Sun of the Desert Solaris Stalker Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Repentance Little Vera Burnt by the Sun Brother Russian Ark The Return Night Watch The Tuner Ninth Company How I Ended This Summer. Contributors: Birgit Beumers Robert Bird David Bordwell Mikhail Brashinsky Oksana Bulgakova Gregory Carlson Nancy Condee Julian Graffy Jeremy Hicks Andrew Horton Steven Hutchings Vida Johnson Lilya Kaganovsky Vance Kepley Jr. Susan Larsen Mark Lipovetsky Tatiana Mikhailova Elena Monastireva-Ansdell Joan Neuberger Vlada Petrić Graham Petrie Alexander Prokhorov Elena Prokhorova Rimgaila Salys Elena Stishova Vlad Strukov Yuri Tsivian Meghan Vicks Josephine Woll Denise J. Youngblood</p>