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The history of Soviet and Russian film criticism has more than a hundred years. Soviet film criticism knew the ups (in the 1920s, during the "thaw" and "perestroika"), a rigid Stalinist censorship stranglehold, and Brezhnev´s era of stagnation. Russian film criticism of post-Soviet period still has a little more than a quarter century. However, during this time Russian film criticism, too, has gone through a number of transformations. This book is the first attempt of a retrospective analysis of Soviet / Russian and Western cinema reflections in the mirror of Soviet / Russian film criticism. Perhaps, the history of Russian film criticism will be written in a full volume someday. This book is just a sketch to this future history...

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Prof. Dr. Alexander Fedorov is media & film researcher. He was a guest professor and visiting senior research scholar in: Central European University (Budapest, 1998, 2006), Maison des sciences de l´homme (France, 2002, 2009), Kennan Institute (USA, 2003), Kassel (2000), Humboldt (2005), Mainz (2010) & Frankfurt (2014) universities.

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