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Traditions in World Cinema Ser.: New Russian Documentary : Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism by Anastasia Kostina (2025, Hardcover)

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This efflorescence went hand in hand with the creation of new institutions—film schools, festivals, and online platforms.

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-10139951105X

ISBN-139781399511056

eBay Product ID (ePID)20070927748

Product Key Features

Number of Pages296 Pages

Publication NameNew Russian Documentary : Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism

LanguageEnglish

SubjectFilm / Reference, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2025

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

AuthorAnastasia Kostina

SeriesTraditions in World Cinema Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsDocumentary filmmaking has arguably been the most exciting aspect of post-Soviet Russian cinema as this pioneering collection convincingly demonstrates. By introducing readers to a diverse group of directors and films, the fifteen essays also offer a unique vantage point for understanding contemporary Russia. A significant contribution to documentary studies., The New Russian Documentary addresses with competence and confidence a corpus of documentary films that have, in the past twenty years, shaped independent and critical discourses in Russian cinema, extending well into other art forms. The 15 chapters by expert authors tell insightful stories about documentary forms, themes and filmmakers, adopting diverse perspectives and making comparisons across a range of cultural contexts.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.436550947

Table Of ContentList of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Note on Transliteration Introduction - Anastasia Kostina and Masha Shpolberg Part I. Contesting State Narratives 1. Politics and Social Engagement in Recent Russian Documentary Film - Jeremy Hicks 2. Everyday Nation-Building: State TV Documentaries in Russia, 2012-2018 - Anastasia Kryachko R øren 3. A Palace for Putin : Navalny's Ironic Documentary - Greg Dolgopolov Part II. Politicizing History 4. The Civic Documentaries of Vitaly Mansky: Text and Subtext - Justin Wilmes 5. Yuri Dud, YouTube, and Documentary Civics - Masha Shpolberg 6. Found Footage Recontextualization in Twenty-First Century Russian Documentaries: Micro- and Macro-histories - Daria Shembel 7. The New Kino-Pravda: Sergei Loznitsa's Compilation Films - Lilya Kaganovsky Part III. Advocating for the Vulnerable 8. A Cinema of Volunteers: Women in Russian Documentary - Victoria Belopolskaya 9. National Subjectivity and the Commitment to Queer Visibility: Audible Discourses in Children 404 - Lora Maslenitsyna 10. Mediating Crisis Childhoods: The Work of Hanna Polak and Iryna Tsilyk - Anna Tropnikova 11. Becoming-Edible: Sergei Loznitsa and Viktor Kossakovsky's 'Vegan' Cinema in Blockade (2006) and Gunda (2020) - Raymond DeLuca Part IV. Developing Distinctive Approaches 12. Teacher as Producer: Marina Razbezhkina and the Rise of Observational Documentary - Anastasia Kostina 13. Alina Rudnitskaya and the Limits of Observational Cinema in Feminist Documentary - Raisa Sidenova 14. Aleksandr Rastorguev: Looking into the Face of Humanity - Anna Nieman 15. Rescue Missions? The Late Documentaries of Alexander Sokurov - Jeremi Szaniawski Filmography Index

SynopsisInvestigates the recent expansion in Russian documentary film and its relationship to politics, the media industries, and the public sphere., Over the last three decades, Russian filmmakers and audiences have engaged with documentary cinema with an intensity unseen since the 1920s, when Soviet documentarians helped pioneer the mode. What started as a trickle of artistically minded films in the 1990s, expanded in the 2000s to include a broad range of works, chief among them films seeking to re-evaluate the country's past and take stock of its present. This efflorescence went hand in hand with the creation of new institutions--film schools, festivals, and online platforms. The rise of YouTube, in particular, helped propel documentary into the cultural mainstream. Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and the Kremlin's subsequent crackdown on independent media put an end to all this. The New Russian Documentary thus seeks to introduce readers to the key figures, institutions, and practices involved in this vibrant, if ultimately doomed, oppositionary movement.