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Informationen zum Autor Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945. Zara M. Torlone is Assistant Professor of Classics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles on Vergil's elegies, classical philology in Russia, and the poetry of Joseph Brodsky. Klappentext Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812¿1945.Zara M. Torlone is Assistant Professor of Classics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles on Vergil's elegies, classical philology in Russia, and the poetry of Joseph Brodsky. Zusammenfassung Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, this work highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. It explores the "us versus them" binary well known to students of Russian culture and the ways in which Russian films depicted these distinctions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema / Stephen M. Norris 1. The Foreigner's Journey to Consciousness in Early Soviet Cinema: The Case of Protazanov's Tommi / Julian Graffy 2. The Wise and Wicked Game: Reediting, Foreignness, and Soviet Film Culture of the Twenties / Yuri Tsivian 3. Dressing the Part: Clothing Otherness in Soviet Cinema before 1953 / Emma Widdis 4. Under the Big Top: America Goes to the Circus / Josephine Woll 5. Eisenstein's Cosmopolitan Kremlin: Drag Queens, Circus Clowns, Slugs, and Foreigners in Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger 6. The Picture of the Enemy in Stalinist Films / Peter Kenez 7. Identifying the Enemy in Contemporary Russian Film / Oleg Sulkin 8. About Killers, Freaks, and Real Men: The Vigilante Hero of Aleksei Balabanov's Films / Anthony Anemone 9. Fools and Cuckoos: The Outsider as Insider in Post-Soviet War Films / Stephen M. Norris List of Contributors Volume Editors Index ...