Cinepaternity Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film [Paperback]

This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as Khutsiev, Motyl, Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling the paternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds are repeatedly strained by the pressure of redefining an embattled masculinity in a shifting political landscape.

Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova's collection of essays is a most welcome addition to the existing literature on Russian cinema. . . . The volume will no doubt find wide application in university courses. Summer 2011, Vol. 70, no. 2A valuable contribution to the literature on Soviet/Russian film. . . . Recommended.September 2010, Vol. 48 No. 1

Contents
Preface

Introduction: Cinepaternity: The Psyche and Its Heritage

Part 1. Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika
1. The Myth of the Great Family in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev / Alexander Prokhorov
2. Mending the Rupture: The War Trope and the Return of the Imperial Father in 1970s Cinema / Elena Prokhorova
3. Models of Male Kinship in Perestroika Cinema / Seth Graham

Part 2. War in the Post-Soviet Dialogue with Paternity
4. The Fathers' War through the Sons' Lens / Tatiana Smorodinskaya
5. War as the Family Value: Failing Fathers and Monstrous Sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein / Mark Lipovetsky
6. A Surplus of Surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers / Helena Goscilo

Part 3. Reconceiving Filial Bonds
7. Resurrected Fathers and Resuscitated Sons: Homosocial Fantasies in The Return and Koktebel / Yana Hashamova
8. The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy / Vlad Strukov
9. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Redeeming Pal#@