Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema
Contributors: Stephen M. Norris (Editor); Zara M. Torlone (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780253351456
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Russia; Film & Video - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Aliens in motion pictures; History; Motion pictures; Outsiders in motion pictures; Russia (Federation)
First sentence: In February 1917 the streets of Petrograd erupted in revolution.
Description: Employing a range of interpretative methods practiced in Russian and Soviet film studies, this book highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the 'us versus them' binary, it demonstrates how impossible maintaining this proved to be.