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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 through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the conditions of production, or the preoccupations of its filmmakers? This expansive study takes up this complex question through a commanding analysis of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period auteurists, Kira Muratova, Vadim Abdrashitov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, Aleksandr Sokurov and Aleksei Balabanov.

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Title The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema
Author Nancy Condee
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 360
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Date 2009-04-08
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780195366761 / 019536676X
Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Russian
Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Russia (Federation) -
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008029349
Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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Chronicle of Higher Education, 05/08/2009, Page 19

About the author

Nancy Condee is on the Slavic and Film Studies faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies for over a decade (1995-2006) and is a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College (Oxford University). She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and serves on a number of editorial and advisory boards, including Kinokultura, Critical Quarterly, and Russian Studies in Literature. She is a member of the Russian Guild of Cinema Scholars and Critics (Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation) and is one of two US scholars annually for over a decade invited to and supported by the Kinotavr Film Festival (Sochi), Russia's leading post-socialist film festival. She has served for six years as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the largest US grant agency for social-science research in the former socialist bloc.

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Oxford University Press, 2009-04-08. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 9x0x6. Hardcover, ISBN 019536676X, 2009. 352 pages, with chapter notes, references and index. Fine condition in illustrated boards, with no dust jacket as issued. Clean inside and out with no markings; binding is solid and square. From the rear panel: "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 through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the… Read More