Russia and its other(s) on film: Screening intercultural dialogue

S. Hutchings

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Focusing on film as an engine of intercultural communication, the volume explores mutual perceptions of the foreign Other in the cinema of Russia and the West during and after communism. Part 1 covers Russian and Soviet cinematic representations of otherness, while Part 2 treats western representations of Russia and the Soviet Union.  

CONTENTS
Introduction; S.Hutchings
SECTION I: RUSSIAN REPRESENTS ‘THE OTHER’
Fear and Anxiety in the Representation of Foreigners in the Soviet films of the Khrushchev years; J.Graffy
Italy and the ‘Other’ in Soviet Cinema; D.Gillespie
From a Post-Colonial Wondertale to a Post-Authoritarian Parable; M.Lipovetsky
Sokurov’s Russian Ark: Reflections on the Russia-Europe Theme; I.de Keghel
The New American Other in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema; S.Graham
SECTION II: THE OTHER REPRESENTS RUSSIA
Lost In Translation? Early Soviet Sound Film Abroad; J.Hicks
Cold War Film and the Non-Reality of Russia; I.Sandomirskaya
Bilingualism, Miscegenation and Incest in East/West and Indochine: Russia’s Place in the French Postcolonial Imagination; S.Hutchings
Through the ‘Other’ Lens? Russians on the Global Screen; B.Beumers
Russian Marital Migrants in Contemporary Film; K.Sarsenov
Angel, Avenger, or Trickster? The ‘Second-World Man’ as the Other and the Self; M.Lipovetsky & D.Leiderman

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