Cinepaternity: Väter und Söhne im sowjetischen und postsowjetischen Film

Author/Contributor(s):	Goscilo, Helena
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	03/30/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.