Abstract
The first issue of Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema for 2025 includes – after several themed special issues – regular article submissions as well as book reviews (which were suspended in the joint issue 18.3 so that the content could be duplicated exactly in Kul’tura Ukrainy).
This issue, then, features a range of articles across a variety of topics. We begin with Anastasia Kostetskaya’s analysis of the representation of children, or mostly their absence, in cinematic discourses about Stalingrad, covering films from the immediate post-war period to more recent years. Fabrizio Fenghi discusses the mutual influences and relationships between the French Nouvelle Vague and Soviet ‘New Wave’ – the auteur cinema of the Thaw, exploring cinematic parallels and echoes in critical discourses of the film press, notably Iskusstvo kino and Cahiers du cinéma. Sergey Toymentsev scrutinises Aleksei Iu. German’s film Khrustalev, My Car! and dismantles its parametric narration, foregrounding the stylistic devices and thereby emphasising the use of formal elements for its cinematic reflection of Stalin’s terror regime. The last two articles turn their attention towards Kazakhstan: Banu Ramazanova examines the use – or the lack of it – of the documentary form to engage society with traumatic moments in Kazakhstan’s history, notably those events where Soviet power tried to suppress ethnic voices, such as the Kazakh Famine and Jeltoqsan. Maria Hristova looks at the representation of nuclear experiments in the Semipalatinsk ‘polygon’ in recent television series.
As always, Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema encourages submissions on any aspect of cinema and visual culture from the pre-Revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet space and time. We operate a system of double-blind peer-review; submissions should be original (i.e. previously unpublished, including publications in another language) and will be considered at any time throughout the year. They should be sent to the editor, [email protected]. We do not use a submission system, because our field is small and we believe in the value of personal correspondence (long may it last!).
This issue, then, features a range of articles across a variety of topics. We begin with Anastasia Kostetskaya’s analysis of the representation of children, or mostly their absence, in cinematic discourses about Stalingrad, covering films from the immediate post-war period to more recent years. Fabrizio Fenghi discusses the mutual influences and relationships between the French Nouvelle Vague and Soviet ‘New Wave’ – the auteur cinema of the Thaw, exploring cinematic parallels and echoes in critical discourses of the film press, notably Iskusstvo kino and Cahiers du cinéma. Sergey Toymentsev scrutinises Aleksei Iu. German’s film Khrustalev, My Car! and dismantles its parametric narration, foregrounding the stylistic devices and thereby emphasising the use of formal elements for its cinematic reflection of Stalin’s terror regime. The last two articles turn their attention towards Kazakhstan: Banu Ramazanova examines the use – or the lack of it – of the documentary form to engage society with traumatic moments in Kazakhstan’s history, notably those events where Soviet power tried to suppress ethnic voices, such as the Kazakh Famine and Jeltoqsan. Maria Hristova looks at the representation of nuclear experiments in the Semipalatinsk ‘polygon’ in recent television series.
As always, Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema encourages submissions on any aspect of cinema and visual culture from the pre-Revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet space and time. We operate a system of double-blind peer-review; submissions should be original (i.e. previously unpublished, including publications in another language) and will be considered at any time throughout the year. They should be sent to the editor, [email protected]. We do not use a submission system, because our field is small and we believe in the value of personal correspondence (long may it last!).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-1 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 16 Jan 2025 |