- SKU: 9781618119643
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The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 - Paperback
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by Rimgaila Salys (Editor)
This collection surveys recent developments in Russian cinema and introduces undergraduate students to significant films released between 2005 and 2016 that are also available with English subtitles. Essays on individual films provide background on directors' careers, detailed analyses of selected films, along with suggestions for further readings both in English and Russian.
Author Biography
Rimgaila Salys is Professor of Russian Studies Emerita at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a specialist in twentieth-century film, literature, and art, and the author of the catalogue raisonné of Leonid Pasternak's Russian works (OUP) and a study of the musical comedy films of Grigorii Aleksandrov (Intellect Press and NLO). She is also the editor of a collection on Iurii Olesha's Envy (Northwestern University Press) and the memoirs of Josephine Pasternak (Slavica). Most recently, she has edited and contributed to the two volume Russian Cinema Reader for Academic Studies Press.
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