Table of Contents
Introduction--Birgit Beumers
• The Russian Idea--Oleg Kovalov
• Part I: The Russian Idea: A Historical and Cinematographic Perspective
• No Glory, No Majesty, or Honour: The Russian Idea and Inverse Value--Nancy Condee
• Now that the Party's Over: Soviet Cinema and Its Legacy--Richard Taylor
• Russian Cinema--National Cinema?
• "Cinema and Life"--Sergei Selianov
• "The State of the National Cinema"--Daniil Dondurei
• "The Function of a National Cinema"--Nikita Mikhalkov
• Part II: Remapping, Fragmenting, Myth-making: In Search of the Russian Idea
• Tinkling Symbols: Fragmented Society--Fragmented Cinema?--Nina Tsyrkun
• Viewed from Below: Subverting the Myths of the Soviet Landscape--Emma Widdis
• To Moscow! To Moscow? . . . The Russian Hero and the Loss of the Centre--Birgit Beumers
• Part III: The Past of the Fatherland Reviewed
• La Grande Illusion--Tatiana Moskvina
• Fathers for the Fatherland: The Cult of the Leader--Natasha Zhuravkina
• New Versions of Old Classics: Cinematic Interpretations of Russian Literature--David Gillespie
• Part IV: The Russian Idea for Contemporary Filmmakers
• Representation, Mimicry, Death: The Latest Films of Alexander Sokurov--Mikhail Iampolski
• The Meaning of Death: Kira Muratova's Cinema of the Absurd--Graham Roberts
• Dmitri Astrakhan--Popular Cinema for a Time of Uncertainty--Julian Graffy
