Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: An Interpretive Survey -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1 Government Policies and Practical Necessities in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s -- THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD: 1918-21 -- THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FILM INDUSTRY -- THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY: FOREIGN TRADE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 Ideology and Popular Culture in Soviet Cinema: The Kiss of Mary Pickford -- ART WITHOUT A CAPITAL LETTER, A PEDESTAL OR A FIG-LEAF -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Cinema as Social Criticism: The Early Films of Fridrikh Ermler -- THE EARLY FILMS: KATKA THE APPLESELLER, THE PARISIAN COBBLER, HOUSE IN THE SNOWDRIFTS AND FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE -- FRIDRIKH ERMLER -- ERMLER AND NIKITIN -- THE KEY FILMS: THE PARISIAN COBBLER AND FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE -- CODA: COUNTERPLAN -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ERMLER AND HIS WORK -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Cinematic Abstraction as a Means of Conveying Ideological Messages in The Man with the Movie Camera -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 The Kinetic Icon and the Work of Mourning: Prolegomena to the Analysis of a Textual System -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 Mr Kuleshov in the Land of the Modernists -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 Films of the Second World War -- THE COMPARATIVE CONTEXT -- DOCUMENTARIES -- MOBILIZING THE FILM INDUSTRY -- WAR FILMS -- NATIONALISM AND HISTORY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 The New Wave in Soviet Cinema -- DIFFICULT FILMS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 The War and Kozin tsev's Films Hamlet and King Lear -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Cinema -- LIST OF FILMS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 Russian Nationalist Themes in Soviet Film of the 1970s -- VASILII SHUKSHIN'S KALINA KRASNAIA -- ANDREI MIKHALKOV-KONCHALOVSKY'S SIBERIADE -- VLADIMIR MEN'SHOV'S MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS -- ANDREI TARKOVSKY'S THE MIRROR -- ELEM KLIMOV'S AGONY -- NOTES.

CHAPTER 12 Socialist Realism and American Genre Film: The Mixing of Codes in Jazzman -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 13 Art and Propaganda in the Soviet Union, 1980-5 -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 14 Alexei German, or the Form of Courage -- CHAPTER 15 Scarecrow and Kindergarten: A Critical Analysis and Comparison -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 16 The Cinema of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian Soviet Republics -- CHAPTER 17 Historical Time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Kirghiz Cinema -- RUSSIAN FILMS AND HISTORY -- HISTORY IN NON-RUSSIAN CINEMA -- TRADITION-AN ALTERNATIVE TO OFFICIAL HISTORY? -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 18 Does a Film Writing of History Exist? The Case of the Soviet Union -- SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE: PROPOSAL FOR A GLOBAL CLASSIFICATION OF FILMS IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO HISTORY -- CHAPTER 19 The Anthill in the Year of the Dragon -- THE FIRST WAY -- THE CROSSROAD -- GLASNOST ITALIAN-STYLE -- CRITICISM IN LAW -- TO KILL THE DRAGON IN THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON -- THE NEW FACE OF THE "OLDEST PROFESSION" -- CHAPTER 20 With Perestroika, without Tarkovsky -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.