Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity amidst Stagnation Decay

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Contents List of figures Contributors Introduction Part I: Violating norms in Soviet serio-comic genres of the Stagnation era 1 Character doubles as a symptom in late Soviet cinema • Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova 2 Antiheroes from an Imagined West: The Very Same Munchhausen and The House that Swift Built • Rimgaila Salys Part II: Unsettling intergenerational harmony, professional integrity, and moral superiority 3 Teaching (by) violence: Antiheroines in Ilya Averbakh’s Other People’s Letters • Tatiana Mikhailova 4 Aging kings on the Soviet screen: Disappointment and self-doubt in Stagnation-era cinema • Otto Boele Part III: Dualism, conformism, and impotence 5 The Soviet flâneur-turned-marathoner: The movement of character and the character of movement in Georgii Daneliia’s 1970s films • Raymond De Luca 6 Unneeded men in a time of compliance: Split identity in Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano and Flights in Dreams and Reality • Marina Rojavin Part IV: Auteur films: Through the lens of time, space, and allegory 7 Getting to Know the Big Wide World: The shaggy, the vulgar, and the bumptious • Eugenie Zvonkine 8 Deconstructing the Stalin myth: Unheroic heroes in the films of Aleksei German, Sr. • Tim Harte Index