Preface
Introduction: Russian Cinema in the Era of Globalization
Vlad Strukov
Dead Man’s Bluff (Aleksei Balabanov, 2005)
Aleksandr Prokhorov
The Sun (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 2005)
Denise J. Youngblood
Cargo 200 (dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 2007)
Anthony Anemone
Mermaid (dir. Anna Melikian, 2007)
Helena Goscilo
Hipsters (dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2008)
Rimgaila Salys
Silent Souls (dir. Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2010)
Imaginary Documents: Inventing Traditions in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Cinema
Serguey Oushakine
The Smoke of the Fatherland: Body as Territory, Sexuality as Identity in Silent Souls
Tatiana Mikhailova
My Joy (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2010)
Justin Wilmes
Elena (dir. Andrei Zviagintsev, 2011)
Andrei Zviagintsev: Unblinking Chronicler of Family Crisis and Human Frailty
Julian Graffy
Crime without Punishment? Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena between Art Cinema and Social
Drama
Elena Prokhorova
The Target (dir. Aleksandr Zel′dovich, 2011)
Ilya Kukulin
The Horde (dir. Andrei Proshkin, 2012)
Tomhomas Roberts
Short Stories (dir. Mikhail Segal, 2012)
Lost in Translation
Mark Lipovetsky
Tell Me What You Know about Russia?
Liliia Nemchenko
Legend Number 17 (dir. Nikolai Lebedev, 2013)
Greg Dolgopolov
Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013)
God Complex
Anton Dolin
Aleksei German. From Realism to Modernism
Elena Stishova
Leviathan (dir. Andrei Zviagintsev, 2014)
Julian Graffy
The Land of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev, 2015)
Liliia Nemchenko
My Good Hans (dir. Aleksandr Mindadze, 2015)
Steve Norris
Paradise (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky, 2016)
Jeremy Hicks
Contributors