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Informationen zum Autor Stephen M. Norris is Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity and editor (with Willard Sunderland) of Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present (IUP, 2012). Klappentext Stephen M. Norris is Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity and editor (with Willard Sunderland) of Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present (IUP, 2012). Zusammenfassung Examines the connections among cinema, politics, economics, history, and patriotism in the creation of "blockbuster history" Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Multiplexing Russia Part 1. The Russia That We Lost 2. The First Blockbuster of the New Nation 3. Terrorism Then and Now 4. Wars and Gambits 5. A Requiem for Communism Part 2. The Price of War 6. Mirror of War 7. Playing with History Part 3. Back in the USSR 8. The Blessed Blockbuster 9. The Soviet Horror Show Part 4. Fantasy Pop History 10. Animating the Past 11. The Look of Fantasy 12. The Business of Patriotism 13. The Production of the Past 14. Conclusion: Packaging the Past Notes Index