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The Imperial Trace
Recent Russian Cinema
by Nancy Condee
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Book Presentation:
• Challenges conventional notions of Russian nationhood by uncovering a deeply rooted imperial legacy in post-Soviet cultural production
• Makes a major contribution to theories of empire and national identity, situated in the context of the main debates in political theory, postcolonialism, and cultural studies
• Presents careful and compelling readings of films by Russia's premiere contemporary auteurs
The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means marked the end of Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, extending over four and a half centuries since the reign of Ivan IV. Is there such a thing as an imperial trace in Russia's contemporary culture? Condee argues that we cannot make sense of contemporary Russian culture without accounting for its imperial legacy and mapping out the terms of such an analysis. She turns to the instance of contemporary cinema to focus this line of inquiry. Within film (and implicitly other cultural fields as well) do we limit our accounting to narrative evidence-Chechen wars at the periphery, historical costume dramas of court life-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded ways, in the manner and structure or representation, the conditions of productions, the recurrent preoccupations of its leading filmmakers, the ways in which collective belonging is figured or disfigured? This book organizes these questions around the work of Russia's internationally ranked auteurs of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period: Kira Muratova, Vadim Abdrashitov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, and Aleksandr Sokurov.
About the Author:
Nancy Condee, Slavic and Film Studies faculty at the University of Pittsburgh
Press Reviews:
Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures
See the publisher website: Oxford University Press
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