Download or read book Russia on Reels written by Birgit Beumers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s. It introduces readers to the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema, offers close studies of the work of filmmakers like Sokurov, Muratova and Astrakhan, reviews the Russian film industry in a period of massive economic transformation, and assesses cinema's function as a definer of Russia's new identity.