The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema

by Nancy Condee

Book Overview

The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four and a half centuries. Examining a host of films from contemporary Russian cinema, Nancy Condee argues that we cannot make sense of current Russian culture without accounting for the region's habits of imperial identification. But is this something made legible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195366964
• ISBN13: 9780195366969
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"