Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Socialism and the Big-Hearted Silliness of Soviet Popular Culture -- PART ONE: THE PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIALIST STATUS OF THE ANIMATED EPOCHÉ -- 1 Is the Philosophy of Soviet Animation an Anomaly? -- 2 Cartography: Mapping the Status of Phenomenology in the Soviet Union -- PART TWO: THE PROVENANCE OF ANIMATED PHENOMENOLOGY -- 3 Several Paradoxes of Soviet Realism and Disney's Unexpected Alternative -- 4 The Annals of Soviet Animation: Consciousness versus Historicism -- I: From World War Two until 1970 -- II: From 1970 to the Present -- PART THREE: JOURNALISM AND THE VOX POPULI -- 5 Realism: The Press and Public Respond -- 6 Originality: Innovation and the Tenacity of Logocentrism and Profiteering -- 7 Humour: Minor Modes and Major Politics -- 8 Music: The Remarkable, Kind Laws of the "Land of Animation" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Screenplays -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.