History of Russian Film 2

Spring 2008 (2084)
Gerald McCausland, instructor

Josephine Woll, "Ballad of a Soldier." The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Ed. Birgit Beumers. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.

Anna Lawton, "The Waning of the Brezhnev Era." Before the Fall: Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2002. 9–54.

Anna Lawton. "The Time of Troubles." Before the Fall: Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2002. 247–265.

All readings for April 1st are from:
Beumers, Birgit. "Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema." London: I.B. Taurus, 1999.

1. Daniil Dondurei. "The State of the National Cinema." 46–50.
2. Nikita Mikhalkov. "The Function of a National Cinema." 50–53.
3. Birgit Beumers. "To Moscow! To Moscow? The Russian Hero and the Loss of the Center." 76–87.

Susan Larsen. "National Identity, Cultural Authority, and the Post-Soviet Blockbuster: Nikita Mikhalkov and Aleksei Balabanov." Slavic Review. 62.3 (Autumn 2003): 491–511.