Cinepaternity

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This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic inpost-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complexpatterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diversedirectors as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling thepaternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds arerepeatedly strained by the pressure of redefining an embattled masculinity in ashifting political landscape.