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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).