Helena Goscilo is Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. She is editor (with Stephen Norris) of Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (IUP, 2008).Yana Hashamova is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. She is author of Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film.

"A valuable contribution to the literature on Soviet/Russian film. . . . Recommended.September 2010, Vol. 48 No. 1"—Choice"This volume truly offers a feast of intellectual delights and many of its essays lend themselves excellently to incorporation in reading lists for a wide range of courses on Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, and culture more broadly. 12/7/10"—Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema"Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova's collection of essays is a most welcome addition to the existing literature on Russian cinema. . . . The volume will no doubt find wide application in university courses. Summer 2011, Vol. 70, no. 2"—Slavic Review"[This] volume is a must-read for film and cultural studies scholars for two reasons: first, the collection addresses a major, vexed sociocultural issue over time; second, this basket of articles—all solid, some exceptional—provides new approaches to a number of important Soviet and Russian films."—The Russian Review"The eleven articles in this anthology provide insightful studies of the Oedipal dynamics dramatized in diverse films beginning in the immediate post-Stalin period."—SEER"A solid contribution to the fields of Soviet and post-Soviet studies, bringing to light a new understanding of post-Stalinist cinema."—Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Cinepaternity: The Psyche and Its HeritagePart 1. Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika1. The Myth of the "Great Family" in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev / Alexander Prokhorov2. Mending the Rupture: The War Trope and the Return of the Imperial Father in 1970s Cinema / Elena Prokhorova3. Models of Male Kinship in Perestroika Cinema / Seth GrahamPart 2. War in the Post-Soviet Dialogue with Paternity4. The Fathers' War through the Sons' Lens / Tatiana Smorodinskaya5. War as the Family Value: Failing Fathers and Monstrous Sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein / Mark Lipovetsky6. A Surplus of Surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers / Helena GosciloPart 3. Reconceiving Filial Bonds7. Resurrected Fathers and Resuscitated Sons: Homosocial Fantasies in The Return and Koktebel / Yana Hashamova8. The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy / Vlad Strukov9. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Redeeming Patriarchal Authority in The Brigade / Brian James BaerPart 4. Auteurs and the Psychological/Philosophical10. Fraught Filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's Transformations of Personal Trauma / Helena Goscilo11. Vision and Blindness in Sokurov's Father and Son / José AlanizContributorsIndex

Helena Goscilo is Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. She is editor (with Stephen Norris) of Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (IUP, 2008).Yana Hashamova is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. She is author of Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film.

"A valuable contribution to the literature on Soviet/Russian film. . . . Recommended.September 2010, Vol. 48 No. 1"—Choice"This volume truly offers a feast of intellectual delights and many of its essays lend themselves excellently to incorporation in reading lists for a wide range of courses on Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, and culture more broadly. 12/7/10"—Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema"Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova's collection of essays is a most welcome addition to the existing literature on Russian cinema. . . . The volume will no doubt find wide application in university courses. Summer 2011, Vol. 70, no. 2"—Slavic Review"[This] volume is a must-read for film and cultural studies scholars for two reasons: first, the collection addresses a major, vexed sociocultural issue over time; second, this basket of articles—all solid, some exceptional—provides new approaches to a number of important Soviet and Russian films."—The Russian Review"The eleven articles in this anthology provide insightful studies of the Oedipal dynamics dramatized in diverse films beginning in the immediate post-Stalin period."—SEER"A solid contribution to the fields of Soviet and post-Soviet studies, bringing to light a new understanding of post-Stalinist cinema."—Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Cinepaternity: The Psyche and Its HeritagePart 1. Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika1. The Myth of the "Great Family" in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev / Alexander Prokhorov2. Mending the Rupture: The War Trope and the Return of the Imperial Father in 1970s Cinema / Elena Prokhorova3. Models of Male Kinship in Perestroika Cinema / Seth GrahamPart 2. War in the Post-Soviet Dialogue with Paternity4. The Fathers' War through the Sons' Lens / Tatiana Smorodinskaya5. War as the Family Value: Failing Fathers and Monstrous Sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein / Mark Lipovetsky6. A Surplus of Surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers / Helena GosciloPart 3. Reconceiving Filial Bonds7. Resurrected Fathers and Resuscitated Sons: Homosocial Fantasies in The Return and Koktebel / Yana Hashamova8. The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch Cinematic Trilogy / Vlad Strukov9. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Redeeming Patriarchal Authority in The Brigade / Brian James BaerPart 4. Auteurs and the Psychological/Philosophical10. Fraught Filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's Transformations of Personal Trauma / Helena Goscilo11. Vision and Blindness in Sokurov's Father and Son / José AlanizContributorsIndex