Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 8
4. Preface 9
5. Acknowledgments 11
6. Image Credits 12
7. Part Four
8. Cinema of the Thaw 1953-1967 14
9. The Cranes are Flying/Letiat zhuravli
10. Introduction 32
11. Reconfiguring the War and Family Tropes in Thaw-Era Homefront Melodrama 37
12. Ballad of a Soldier/Ballada o soldate 52
13. Lenin’s Guard/Zastava Il’icha 59
14. Wings/Kryl’ia
15. Introduction 67
16. Flight Without Wings: The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit’ko’s Wings 70
17. Commissar/Komissar
18. Introduction 84
19. Soviet Structuring Myths in The Commissar 88
20. Part Five
21. Cinema of Stagnation Late 1960s-1985 104
22. The Diamond Arm/Brilliantovaia ruka 114
23. White Sun of the Desert/Beloe solntse pustyni
24. Introduction 126
25. We Have Been Sitting Here for a Long Time 134
26. Solaris/Soliaris 138
27. Stalker
28. Introduction 154
29. Stalker 157
30. Andrei Tarkovsky: The Elements of Cinema 170
31. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears/Moskva slezam ne verit
32. Introduction 174
33. The Cultural Logic of Late Socialism 179
34. Part Six
35. Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema 1985-2000s 190
36. Repentance/Monanieba (georgian); Pokaianie (russian)
37. Introduction 209
38. Signs and Symbols: Repentance’s Stylistic Devices 215
39. Little Vera/Malen’kaia Vera
40. Introduction 228
41. Between Joy and Suicide: Fathers, Daughters, and Little Vera 231
42. Burnt by the Sun/Utomlennye solntsem
43. Introduction 239
44. Burnt by the Sun 242
45. Burnt by the Sun 251
46. Brother/Brat
47. Introduction 257
48. Brother 261
49. Russian Ark/Russkii kovcheg 270
50. The Return/Vozvrashchenie
51. Introduction 282
52. Tarkovsky’s Return, or Zviagintsev’s Vozvrashchenie 286
53. Arrested Returns 293
54. Night Watch/Nochnoi dozor 302
55. The Tuner/Nastroishchik 313
56. Ninth Company/Deviataia rota 324
57. How I Ended This Summer/Kak ia provel etim letom 330