Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Introduction. Russian Cinema in the Era of Globalization 9
5. Dead Man’s Bluff 35
6. The Sun 52
7. Cargo 200 73
8. Mermaid 89
9. Hipsters 114
10. Silent Souls
11. Imaginary Documents: Inventing Traditions in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Cinema 136
12. The Smoke of the Fatherland: Body as Territory, Sexuality as Identity in Silent Souls 144
13. My Joy 157
14. Elena
15. The Films of Andrei Zviagintsev: An Unblinking Chronicle of Family Crisis and Human Frailty 176
16. Crime without Punishment? Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena between Art Cinema and Social Drama 183
17. The Target 195
18. The Horde 217
19. Short Stories
20. Lost in Translation 239
21. Tell Me What You Know about Russia? 249
22. Legend No. 17 257
23. Hard to Be a God
24. God Complex 278
25. Aleksei German. From Realism to Modernism 285
26. Leviathan 305
27. The Land of Oz 328
28. My Good Hans 344
29. Paradise 362
30. Contributors 383
31. Index 388