Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Conceptualising the period ; Overview of the contemporary Russian film ; Critical review of scholarship on contemporary Russian film ; Contextualising the present study ; Theorising contemporary Russian cinema
  • 1. Abstracted subjectivity and knowledge-worlds : Aleksandr Sokurov's Taurus (2001)
  • 2. The lacking sense of cinema : Aleksandr Proshkin's The miracle (2009)
  • 3. Gatekeepers of (non- )knowledge : Aleksei Balabanov's Morphine (2008)
  • 4. Symbolic folds and flattened discourse : Andrei Zviagintsev's Elena (2010)
  • 5. Non-knowledge and the symbolic mode : Nikolai Khomeriki's A tale about darkness (2009)
  • 6. The world and the event : Kirill Serebrennikov's St. George's Day (2008)
  • 7. A plea for the dead (self) : Renata Litvinova's Goddess : how I fell in love (2004)
  • 8. Body in crisis and posthumous subjectivity : Igor' Voloshin's Nirvana (2008)
  • 9. The difficulty of being dead : Aleksandr Veledinskii's Alive (2006)
  • 10. Intentionality and modelled subjectivities : Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent souls (2010)
  • 11. Abandoned being : Mikhail Kalatozishvili's The wild field (2008)
  • 12. Amplifications of subjectivity : Aleksandr Zel'dovich's The target (2010)
  • Conclusions.