Description
Book SynopsisRussian cinema's portrayal of the father/son dynamic
Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the literature on Soviet/Russian film.... Recommended." —Choice, September 2010, Vol. 48 No. 1
"Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova's collection of essays is a most welcome addition to the existing literature on Russian cinema.... The volume will no doubt find wide application in university courses." —Slavic Review, Summer 2011, Vol. 70, no. 2
"[This] volume is a must-read for film and cultural studies scholars for two reasons: first, the collection addresses a major, vexed sociocultural issue over time; second, this basket of articles—all solid, some exceptional—provides new approaches to a number of important Soviet and Russian films." —The Russian Review
"The eleven articles in this anthology provide insightful studies of the Oedipal dynamics dramatized in diverse films beginning in the immediate post-Stalin period." —SEER
"A solid contribution to the fields of Soviet and post-Soviet studies, bringing to light a new understanding of post-Stalinist cinema." —Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"This volume truly offers a feast of intellectual delights and many of its essays lend themselves excellently to incorporation in reading lists for a wide range of courses on Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, and culture more broadly." —Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 12/7/10
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Introduction: Cinepaternity: The Psyche and Its Heritage
Part 1. Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika
1. The Myth of the "Great Family" in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev / Alexander Prokhorov
2. Mending the Rupture: The War Trope and the Return of the Imperial Father in 1970s Cinema / Elena Prokhorova
3. Models of Male Kinship in Perestroika Cinema / Seth Graham
Part 2. War in the Post-Soviet Dialogue with Paternity
4. The Fathers' War through the Sons' Lens / Tatiana Smorodinskaya
5. War as the Family Value: Failing Fathers and Monstrous Sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein / Mark Lipovetsky
6. A Surplus of Surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers / Helena Goscilo
Part 3. Reconceiving Filial Bonds
7. Resurrected Fathers and Resuscitated Sons: Homosocial Fantasies in The Return and Koktebel / Yana Hashamova
8. The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy / Vlad Strukov
9. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Redeeming Patriarchal Authority in The Brigade / Brian James Baer
Part 4. Auteurs and the Psychological/Philosophical
10. Fraught Filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's Transformations of Personal Trauma / Helena Goscilo
11. Vision and Blindness in Sokurov's Father and Son / José Alaniz
Contributors
Index
