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.
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.
