This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentalized, both by the Kremlin's allies and its detractors, to convey salient political and cultural messages, often in subtle ways, thereby becoming a tool for both critiquing and serving domestic and foreign policy objectives, shaping national identity, and determining cultural memory. It explains how regulations, legislation, and funding mechanisms have rendered contemporary cinema both an essential weapon for the Kremlin and a means for more independent figures to publicly frame official government policy. In addition, the book employs formal cinematic analysis to highlight the dominant themes and narratives in modern Russian films of a variety of genres, situating them in Russia's broader rhetorical ecosystem and explaining how they serve the objectives of the Kremlin or its opponents.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2024

ISBN

9781040102596

Edition

Topic

Sozialwissenschaften

Subtopic

Ethnische Studien

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Note on Transliteration
List of contributors
Introduction
1. Russia’s Film Industry between State and Commerce, between National and Global
2. In Defense of Historical Truth: The Second Front of Russia’s Information War
3. The Holocaust and Russia’s Cinematic Go-Betweens: Cultural Diplomatic Internationalism or Covert Information Warfare?
4. Exploiting the Seventh Art: Legitimizing Contemporary Russian Private Military Adventurism
5. Preparing for Total War: Ukraine in Recent Donbas and Russian Cinema
6. The Battle for Narrative Dominance: Criminal Law in Contemporary Russian Cinema
7. The Russian Orthodox Church and Religious Legislation Reflected in Contemporary Russian Film
8. Angry Young Men and Modest Provincials: Reimagining the Dissident Writer in Russian Cinema
Index