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Cinepaternity [electronic resource] : Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film / edited by Helena Goscilo & Yana Hashamova.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Russia (Federation)--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Fathers and sons in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling the paternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds are repeatedly strained by the.
- Contents:
- Introduction: cine paternity: the psyche and its heritage
- Thaw, stagnation, Perestroika. The myth of the "great family" in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three days of Viktor Chernyshev / Alexander Prokhorov
- Mending the rupture: the war trope and the return of the imperial father in 1970's cinema / Elena Prokhorova
- Models of male kinship in Perestroika cinema / Seth Graham
- War in the post-Soviet dialogue with paternity. The fathers' war through the sons' lens / Tatiana Smorodinskaya
- War as the family value: failing fathers and monstrous sons in My stepbrother Frankenstein / Mark Lipovetsky
- A surplus of surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers / Helena Goscilo
- Reconceiving filial bonds. Resurrected fathers and resuscitated sons: homosocial fantasies in The return and Koktebel / Yana Hashamova
- The forces of kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night watch cinematic trilogy / Vlad Strukov
- Fathers, sons, and brothers: redeeming patriarchal authority in The brigade / Brian James Baer
- Auteurs and the psychological/philosophical. Fraught filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's Transformations of personal trauma / Helena Goscilo
- Vision and blindness in Sokurov's Father and son / Jose Alaniz.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-00137-4
- OCLC:
- 735596466
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