Recommended Readings on Contemporary Russian Society and Culture

Adele Marie Barker, ed. Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Soviety since Gorbachev. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999.

Rodric Braithwaite, Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.

Galina Dutkina, Moscow Days: Life and Hard Times in the New Russia. Trans. Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. New York: Kodansha International, 1996.

Julian Graffy and Geoffrey A. Hosking, eds. Culture and the Media in the USSR Today. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Stephen Handelman, Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995.

Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd, eds. Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

Thomas Lahusen and Gene Kuperman, eds. Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993.

Andrew Meier, Black Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

Eleanor Randolph, Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. New York: Random House, 1993.

Dmitri N. Shalin, ed. Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
 
 

Recommended Additional Readings on Contemporary Russian Film

Lynne Attwood, ed. Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era. London: Pandora, 1993.

Birgit Beumers, ed. Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999.

Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton, eds. Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994

George Faraday, Revolt of the Filmmakers: The Struggle for Artistic Autonomy and the Fall of the Soviet Film Industry. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State UP, 2000.

Daniel J. Goulding, ed. Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.

Andrew Horton, ed. Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993

Andrew Horton and Michael Brashinsky, The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

Anna Lawton, Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
 
 

General Web Resources on Contemporary Russian Film and Culture

Articles: David Gurevich, "The State of Contemporary Russian Cinema"
Boris Fishman, "Its Freedoms No Longer New, Russian Cinema Matures"
Jonathan Romney, "Gloom in the East"
Christina Stojanova, "The New Russian Cinema"
Christina Stojanova, "Russian Cinema in the Free-Market Realm: Strategies for Survival"

Websites: Kinoeye Archive on Russian Cinema
KinoKultura New Russian Cinema
SSEES Internet Resources on Russian Cinema
Cinema in Russia
Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium
Russian and Soviet Cinema--Internet Resources
Russian Film in the U.S.--Reference Index
Rita Lipson, The Icon and The Fax: Emerging Trends in Russian Culture

Vendors: Facets Video
Amazon.com
RBCmp3.com
Russian Cinema Council


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