‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film
(2021)
Book Chapter
McGinity-Peebles, A. (2021). ‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film. In G. Gergely, & S. Hayward (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to European Cinema (394-403). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027447
Since Putin's third term as president, official discourse of Russian nationhood has become increasingly statist, ethnonationalist, traditionalist and anti-Western in tone and substance. This chapter analyzes the three films, Long and Happy Life, Levi... Read More about ‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film.