Identifying who was "inside" and who was "outside" the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film. Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the "us versus them" binary well known to students of Russian culture and the ways in which Russian films depicted these distinctions, the book demonstrates just how impossible maintaining this binary proved to be.

Contributors are Anthony Anemone, Julian Graffy, Peter Kenez, Joan Neuberger, Stephen M. Norris, Oleg Sulkin, Yuri Tsivian, Emma Widdis, and Josephine Woll.

Explores the depiction of foreignness in Russian and Soviet films

About the Author

Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945.

Zara M. Torlone is Assistant Professor of Classics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles on Vergil's elegies, classical philology in Russia, and the poetry of Joseph Brodsky.

Reviews

. . . The nine essays are wonderful in their analyses of films. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.February 2009

* Choice *

[The editors] and the volume's contributors offer an insightful survey of how Soviet and Russian cinema constructed the meanings of Soviet, Russian and foreign identities over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-rst centuries. . . . It will be useful to graduate students and scholars working in the area of Russian andlm studies.V.89.3 Jully 2011

* Slavic and East European Review *

. . . Stephen Norris and Zara Torlone have . . . produced an anthology that is the best I have ever had the pleasure of reading. . . Lucidly written, well researched, persuasively argued, lavishly illustrated, Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone from the general reader interesed in Russian culture to the most seasoned Russian film specialist.Vol. 68.2 April 2009

-- Denise J. Youngblood * University of Vermont *

. . .a fine collection of essays by leading film scholars . . . .Vol. 68.4 Winter 2009

-- Brigit Beumers * University of Bristol *

In a word, the theoretical richness and sophistication of this collection parallel the complexity of its topics and serve as an excellent cross-section of how the theme of foreigners and outsiders is examined in comtemporary studies in film. Volume 54, Issue 4 Winter 2010

* Slavonic & East European Journal *



Book Information
ISBN 9780253219824
Author Stephen M. Norris
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 345g