Introduction : cinema, memory, modernity: the return of memory as film -- No escape from time : memory and redemption in the international postwar art film -- The "crisis" of memory : "traumatic identity" in the contemporary memory film -- "Global memory" : cinema as lingua fran…
Employing a range of interpretative methods practiced in Russian and Soviet film studies, this book highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the 'us versus them' binary, it demonstrates how impossib…
Provides useful information on the occult religions and applies this discussion to selected films. Readers will find excellent background on these paths as well as perceptive commentary of film adaptations of them and their relevance to understanding our culture.--Publisher's no…
