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Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema

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Description for Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema Paperback. Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, this work highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. It explores the "us versus them" binary well known to students of Russian culture and the ways in which Russian films depicted these distinctions. Editor(s): Norris, Stephen M.; Torlone, Zara M. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.

Identifying who was "inside" and who was "outside" the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film. Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the "us versus them" binary well known to students of Russian culture and the ways in which Russian films depicted these distinctions, the book demonstrates just how impossible maintaining ... Read more

Contributors are Anthony Anemone, Julian Graffy, Peter Kenez, Joan Neuberger, Stephen M. Norris, Oleg Sulkin, Yuri Tsivian, Emma Widdis, and Josephine Woll.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253219824
SKU
V9780253219824
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About Norris
Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812–1945. Zara M. Torlone is Assistant Professor of Classics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles on Vergil's elegies, classical philology in Russia, and the poetry of ... Read more

Reviews for Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema
. . . The nine essays are wonderful in their analyses of films. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.February 2009
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[The editors] and the volume's contributors offer an insightful survey of how Soviet and Russian cinema constructed the meanings of Soviet, Russian and foreign identities over the course of the twentieth and early ... Read more

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