Cinemasaurus examines ninety recent films over three decades, focusing on four issues of
Russia's transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the film market and new
genres, (3) the dialogue with European values and hierarchies, (4) its
renegotiation with state power. Its
contributors include the next generation of US-Russian cinema scholars.

Nancy Condee is Director of University of Pittsburgh's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center, a Title VI Center.

Alexander Prokhorov teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.

Elena Prokhorova teaches at Russian and Film Studies Programs at the College of William & Mary.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword
Stephen M. Norris

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translations

Cinemasaurus: Introduction
Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova

Part One. Borders of Imperial Desire

Framing Essay
Nancy Condee

1. Imperial Fatigue: Somnambulants, Ghosts, and Monsters
Olga Kim

2. Empire Reloaded: Sacred Power in a Postmodern Era
Justin Wilmes

3. Russia's Quiet Other: Dmitrii Mamuliia's Another Sky and Aleksandr Kott's The Test
Ellina Sattarova

Part Two. Hilarity and Horror

Framing Essay
Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova

4. Laughing Apocalypse: Horror and/as Comedy
Daria Ezerova

5. Eccentricity, Theatricality, and the Grotesque
Robert Crane

6. Privatized Violence in the New Russian Cinema
Denis Saltykov

Part Three. Evropsk or Russia?

Framing Essay
Seth Graham

7. Fragments of Empire: The Heartland in Post-Soviet Film
Zhanna Budenkova

8. Russia on the Margins?
Tetyana Shlikhar

8. Contending Alterities: Drag Show, Roma Camp . . .
Trevor Wilson

Part Four. The Ideological Occult

Framing Essay
Petre Petrov

9. Past, Present, and Posthumous Fathers: Cinepaternity Reloaded
Theodora Trimble

10. New Auteurism: The Case of Mikhalkov and Bekmambetov
Olga Mukhortova

11. Elki: The Most Profitable Franchise of the Putin Era
Beach Gray

Part Five. Interviews

12. The Mediascape: Alexander Rodnyansky (CEO, AR Films, Non-Stop Production)
13. The Festival: Sitora Alieva (Program Director, Kinotavr)
14. The Exhibition Space: Paul Heth (CEO, Rising Star Media; Karo Film Holding)
15. The Film Journal: Birgit Beumers (KinoKultura, UK)
16. The Film Symposium: Vladimir Padunov (Russian Film Symposium, US)

Kino-Grafik
Notes on the Contributors
Works Cited
Index