Cinemasaurus - (Film and Media Studies) by Nancy Condee & Alexander Prokhorov & Elena Prokhorova (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><b><i></i></b><i>Cinemasaurus<b> </b></i>examines ninety recent films over three decades, focusing on four issues of Russia's transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the film market and new genres, (3) the dialogue with European values and hierarchies, (4) its renegotiation with state power. Its contributors include the next generation of US-Russian cinema scholars.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Cinemasaurus </em>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: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the emergence of a film market and its new genres, (3) Russia's uneven integration into European values and hierarchies, (4) the renegotiation of state power <em>vis-à-vis</em> arthouse and independent cinemas. An introductory essay frames each of the four sections, with 90 films total under discussion, concluding with a historical timeline and five interviews of key film-industry figures formative of the historical context.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"As well as being seen as treasure-/storehouse, <i>Cinemasaurus</i> may be likened to a mosaic, and one in which some of the most scintillating fragments are to be found in the framing essays. Petre Petrov provides a brilliant reading of the reclamation of a defunct space station in the space drama <i>Saliut-7</i> as allegory of the attempted restoration of the imperial project in recent Russian cinema, while Nancy Condee offers the most intellectually bracing and linguistically vivacious writing in the entire volume in her introduction to the cluster of essays on empire. In its broad intellectual ambition, and in the consistently informed and incisive essays of the young scholars whom she has nurtured, this handsomely produced volume is also a salute to her own inestimable contribution to our understanding of contemporary Russian cinema and society."</p><p>--Julian Graffy, University College London, <i>Russian Review</i></p><br><br><p>"<i>Cinemasaurus</i> carefully traces a nuanced picture of multiple, often contradictory, tendencies in Russian film today. It looks equally to the past and future; and it investigates features both little and large, both peripheral and imperial. For these reasons, the editors and contributors are to be congratulated alike. Ideally suited to cinema survey classes, <i>Cinemasaurus</i> will offer clarity to both students and scholars, and it will prompt substantial future research."</p><p>--David MacFadyen, University of California, Los Angeles, <i>Studies in European Cinema</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Nancy Condee</strong> is Director of University of Pittsburgh's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center, a Title VI Center.</p><p><strong>Alexander Prokhorov</strong> teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.</p><p><strong>Elena Prokhorova</strong> teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.</p>
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