Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema最新文献

{"title":"Leonid Gaidai’s full-length debut, or ‘The Accusatory Cinema of Thaw’: the history of the transformation of the script The Dead Affair into the film A Groom from the Other World (1958)","authors":"Nina Sputnitskaia","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2024.2312719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2024.2312719","url":null,"abstract":"The introductory article to this publication chronicles the production of Leonid Gaidai’s film A Groom from the Other World: from the idea of the script for the satirical comedy The Dead Affair to ...","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Everyday representations of war in late modernity","authors":"Adrienne Harris","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2024.2302263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2024.2302263","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139756411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The film comedies of Leonid Gaidai: student works and the formation of a style","authors":"Maksim Kazyuchits","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2024.2303173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2024.2303173","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the early stage of the career of the well-known Soviet and Russian comedy filmmaker Leonid Gaidai, notably the training period at the All-Union Institute of Cinema (VGIK), on t...","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139499214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Eisenstein Universe: unveiling new dimensions in film, art, and thought","authors":"Patrícia Castello Branco","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2024.2302264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2024.2302264","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How the Soviet Jew Was Made","authors":"Stephen M. Norris","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2024.2302265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2024.2302265","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139414157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Inside the belly of the whale’: epistemology and aisthesis in the work of Aleksei German","authors":"Livan Garcia-Duquesne","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2023.2300877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2300877","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the relative dearth of English-language scholarship on Aleksei Iu. German’s work, this essay attempts to provide a totalising account of German’s filmography, elaborating on the themes ...","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139414181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A baby to save their marriage:\u0000 Little Alexander\u0000 (1981) as USSR-GDR ‘family therapy’ by way of historical wish fulfilment","authors":"Anastasia Kostetskaya","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2023.2300878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2300878","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"47 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139442577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalising the steppe: environment and identity in Ermek Tursunov’s Tengrist parables","authors":"Elena Monastireva-Ansdell","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2023.2298050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2298050","url":null,"abstract":"Kazakhstani cinematic discourse on the environment has evolved from prioritising pressing nation-building and geopolitical objectives in the immediate post-independence era to proposing alternative...","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dreaming of space: a premonition of Ernest Hemingway","authors":"Frederick H. White","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2023.2291181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2291181","url":null,"abstract":"This article concentrates on the cultural mythology of Ernest Hemingway implicitly inscribed into Aleksei Uchitel’ and Aleksandr Mindadze’s Dreaming of Space (2005). This film offers a presentiment...","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"175 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138687928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer women of Kantemir Balagov: subjectivities in extreme contexts","authors":"Vlad Strukov","doi":"10.1080/17503132.2023.2251311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2251311","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe discussion focuses on two films – Closeness (2017) and Beanpole (2019) – by Kantemir Balagov, and is concerned with interrogating the possibilities of queer-crip dynamic in contemporary Russian-language cinema. I argue that the queer-crip dynamic allows the film director to stage a critique of ableism and heteronormativity as part of the examination of power dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet contexts. Balagov demonstrates that the heteronormative, cis-gender, able-bodied, white person of mainstream cultural identity dominates the discourse by placing oneself in charge of power relations. Balagov’s self-criticality permits a complex understanding of queer women as powerful individuals forming relationships through own agency. In his oeuvre, crip-queerness emerges in extreme contexts encompassing a range of tropes such as claustrophobia, punishment and strangulation, which are associated with sexual practices, on the one hand, and on the other, with the protest of the queer body against repressive social regimes. The discussion advances debates about crip-queerness in world cinemas by conceptualising the notions of queerness and extreme contexts, that is, contexts characterised by the extensive and intolerable magnitude of experience and its physical and emotional effects on individuals.KEYWORDS: Kantemir Balagovqueer/cripsexualityextreme contextviolenceNorth Caucasus AcknowledgementsI thank Olga Andreevskikh and Katia Suverina for feedback on the first draft of this article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. For reviews of Balagov’s films see Ezerova (Citation2018) and Kaganovsky (Citation2020).2. It includes short films that he made at the start of his career and most recently, unfinished work on the television series The Last of Us (HBO, 2023, multiple directors) (Kit Citation2021).3. Moscow-based film studios and cultural institutions function in the same way, that is, by exercising hegemonic discursive power over other centres of cultural production.4. An example of ethnic othering of film culture of the RF can be found in McGinity-Peebles (Citation2022).5. According to the scholar, the chief aim of this scholarly approach is critiquing accounts of global queering in terms of the spread of Western, especially US, sexual and gender cultures (Jackson Citation2009, 15).6. Research in this article does not focus on violence against queer subjects (e.g., Kondakov Citation2022), but on how queer subjects sustain themselves in regimes of violence.7. For a discussion of body movement and gestures in Balagov’s films, see Stepanova (Citation2023); for a discussion of queer meaning of gestures in Russian cinema, see Strukov (Citation2016b).8. See, for example, Strukov and Hudspith (Citation2014), where in film representations of the Caucasus the dominant narrative of captivity is inverted thanks to the queer optic.9. For example, in Andrei Zviagintsev’s The Return (Vozvrashchenie, 2003","PeriodicalId":41168,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135968940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}