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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume's contributors-the new generation of US scholars studying Russian cinema-examine four issues of Russia's transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the emergence of a film market and its new genres, (3) Russia's uneven integration into European values and hierarchies, (4) the renegotiation of state power vis-à-vis arthouse and independent cinemas. An introductory essay frames each of the four sections, with 90 films total under discussion, concluding with a historical timeline and five interviews of key film-industry figures formative of the historical context.

Motion picture industry --- 20th century film. --- 21st century film. --- Aleksandr Kott. --- Another Sky. --- Bekmambetov. --- Cinema. --- Dmitrii Mamuliia. --- Elki. --- Eurasian. --- Film Symposium. --- KinoKultura. --- Kinotavr. --- Mikhalkov. --- Russia. --- The Test. --- art. --- arthouse films. --- cinematography. --- comedy. --- contemporary. --- criticism. --- culture. --- documentary. --- film festival. --- film production. --- film. --- genre. --- horror. --- independent films. --- movies. --- political commentary. --- post-Soviet. --- violence in film.

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Discursive practices during war polarize and politicize gender: they normally require men to fulfill a single, overriding task—destroy the enemy—but impose a series of often contradictory expectations on women. The essays in the book establish links between political ideology, history, psychology, cultural studies, cinema, literature, and gender studies and addresses questions such as— what is the role of women in war or military conflicts beyond the well-studied victimization? Can the often contradictory expectations of women and their traditional roles be (re)thought and (re)constructed? How do cultural representations of women during war times reveal conflicting desires and poke holes in the ideological apparatus of the state and society?

War in mass media. --- Women in mass media. --- Women and war --- History --- Technology & engineering --- Social science --- Women and war. --- Slavic countries. --- Military --- Other. --- Military science. --- Gender studies. --- Balkan Peninsula. --- Europe --- War and women --- War --- Women and the military --- Mass media --- Mass media and war --- Women in mass media --- War in mass media --- E-books --- Film, Gender studies, Literature, Media, Political violence, Women, Women and war, World War II.

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The early years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations, from the late Soviet directors through post-Soviet and New Russian filmmakers to the Russian millennials, have worked in varying visual styles and with diverse narrative strategies, while searching for a new cinematic language. Financing and distribution models have evolved, along with conservative politics driving Ministry of Culture regulation. This reader is intended both for contemporary Russian cinema courses and for modern Russian culture courses that emphasize film. It does not attempt to establish a canon for the period but seeks to provide undergraduate students with an introduction to significant Russian films released between 2005 and 2016 that are also available with English subtitles. The twenty-one essays on individual films provide background information on directors' careers, detailed analyses of selected films, along with suggested further readings both in English and Russian.

Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History --- History and criticism --- Aleksandr Mindadze. --- Aleksandr Sokurov. --- Aleksandr Zel'dovich. --- Aleksei Balabanov. --- Aleksei Fedorchenko. --- Aleksei German. --- Andrei Konchalovsky. --- Andrei Proshkin. --- Andrei Zviagintsev. --- Anna Melikian. --- Cargo 200. --- Contemporary Russian Culture. --- Contemporary Russian film. --- Dead Man's Bluff. --- Elena. --- Hard to be a God. --- Hipsters. --- Legend Number 17. --- Leviathan. --- Mermaid. --- Mikhail Segal. --- My Good Hans. --- My Joy. --- Nikolai Lebedev. --- Paradise. --- Post-Soviet film. --- Russian cinema. --- Sergei Loznitsa. --- Short Stories. --- Silent Souls. --- The Horde. --- The Land of Oz. --- The Sun. --- The Target. --- Valery Todorovsky. --- Vasily Sigarev. --- cinema. --- film. --- Motion pictures. --- 2000-2099. --- Russia (Federation).