The recovery of Russia's film industry after the collapse of the USSR and the subsequent economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by a strengthening of patriotic and nationalist tendencies. Adapting Hollywood methods to Russian history, by the mid-2000s, the cinema of the new Russia began producing historical blockbusters. These films were subordinated to the main goal of creating the image of a strong country that needed to be revived in order to be proud of it again. This book examines the Russian blockbuster as a holistic cultural phenomenon and simultaneously a point where politics, economics, history, and ideology intersect. Historian Stephen M. Norris, a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, aims to look at the history of 21st-century Russia through the prism of cinema and understand how the state used it to construct a new national identity.
New Literary Observer (NLO)
Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism (Istoriya Rossiyskogo Blokbastera)
29.24£
Publisher: New Literary Observer (NLO)
Author: Stiven Norris
Size: 21.5x14x1.9
Book series: Cinema Texts (Kinoteksty)
Cover: Paperback
Language: Russian
Pages: 384
Publication year: 2024
ISBN: 9785444822142
ISBN (Barcode): 9785444822142








