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Issue 17: July 2007

Articles

Melodrama and Kino-Ideology: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium Roundtable:

• Peter Bagrov: "Soviet Melodrama: A Historical Overview"
• Dawn Seckler: "Orphans of the Storm: Economic Destitution, Physical Lack, and Social Alienation in the Contemporary Russian Melodrama"
• Oleg Sulkin: "Melodrama as the Experience of the Moment"
• Dmitrii Savel'ev: "Out of Ideology: The Post-Soviet Melodrama"
• Mikhail Trofimenkov: "Origin of the Species: Post-Soviet Melodrama"
• David MacFadyen: "Ethical Masochism in Recent Russian Melodrama"
• Marcia Landy: "Melodrama: Short Reflections on a Long Subject"

Kristina Matvienko: The Third Festival of Real Cinema: "Kinoteatr.doc" (2007)

Film Reviews

Vitaly Chernetsky on Oksana Bairak's Aurora (Ukraine)
Christine Engel on Rezo Gigineishvili's Heat
Olga Klimova on Igor' Apasian's Graffiti
Michelle Kuhn on Aleksei Fedorchenko's Shosho (Docu)
Elena Monastireva-Ansdell on Andrei Eshpai's Ellipsis
Jeremy Morris on Filip Iankovskii's The Sword Bearer
Alissa Timoshkina on Ruslan Bal'ttser's The Insatiables

DoubleView:

Nancy Condee on Kira Muratova's Two in One (Ukraine)
Julian Graffy on Kira Muratova's Two in One (Ukraine)

TV Series: Reviews

Elena Prokhorova on Murad Aliev's Officers (TV)

Central Asia: Reviews

Andrew Chapman on Safarbek Soliev's Calendar of Expectations (Tajikistan)

 

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Updated: 20 Jul 07