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Cinema (due to TV shows, videos, DVDs and Internet) is considered an effective means of media influence (including political and ideological influence) on the audience. Consequently, the study of the Russian and Western images´ transformations on the screen is actual. One of the objectives of this book is to define the place and role of the Russian / Western images transformations in the Western / Soviet / Russian cinematograph from 1946 (the beginning of the post-war ideological confrontation) to 1991 (the Soviet Union disintegration) versus the tendencies of the modern age (1992-Present); the study of the political, ideological, social and cultural contexts, the principal development stages, ideology, content models, genre modifications, aims, objectives, authors´ conceptions of this topic interpretation on the screen.

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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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