Russia and Its Other(s) on Film Screening Intercultural Dialogue

by Hutchings, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780230517363
• ISBN10: 0230517366
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume applies two fashionable theoretical paradigms--" The Other" and " intercultural dialogue" --to Russian film and television.

Author Biography

STEPHEN HUTCHINGS has a Chair in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Russian Represents 'The Other'

Foreigners in Russian Cinema: The Extraordinary Case of the 1961 Film "Inostrantsy"

New Approaches with Similar Effects: Victor Nekrasov and Italian Neo-Realist Film in the Early 1960s

Italians as Others in Late Soviet Film

Contemporary Russian Television Commercials and the Transformation of Western Models

Aleksandr Rogozhkin's Film "Cuckoo" as a Russian Postcolonial Fairytale

Sokurov's "Russian Ark": Reflections on the Russia-Europe Theme

The Other Represents Russia

Lost in Translation: Did Sound Stop Soviet Films Finding Western Audiences?

Lines of Fight in the Face of the Enemy: The Curious Absence of the Face of the Russian Other in Western Cold War Films

Bilingualism, Miscegenation and Incest in Regis Wargnier's "Vostok/Zapad" and "Indochine": Russia's Place in the French Postcolonial Imagination

Russian Martial Migrants in Contemporary Film

The Comfort of Stereotypes in Spielberg's "Terminal": A Post-Soviet Man in the Western Context

Conclusion

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