Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction Chapter One: Displaced Vision: The Politics of Realism in Kracauer and Kluge, Tara Forrest Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Madness in Realist Film Theory, Temenuga Trifonova Chapter Three: Phenomenology, Theology, and 'Physical Reality': The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer, Tyson Wils Chapter Four: 'Montage, My Fine Care': Realism, Surrealism and Postmodernism after Bazin, Ramona Fotiade Chapter Five: Multiple Indexicality and Multiple Realism in André Bazin, Seung-hoon Jeong Chapter Six: André Bazin, or the Ambiguity of Reality, Pierre Sorlin Chapter Seven: Realism is to Think Historically: Overlapping Elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian Theories of Realism, Angelos Koutsourakis Chapter Eight: The Moving-Image Redemption of Orality and Lukács' early Writing on the Cinema, Apple Xu Yaping Chapter Nine: The 'Naturalist' Treatment of Film in The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Georg Lukács, 1963), and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1962, Caspar Wrede, 1970), Ian Aitken Chapter Ten: The Documentary Version of Film History, Henry K. …”

“…Un nacionalismo que hunde sus raíces en la Rusia zarista, en mitos fundacionales de la época soviética como la Gran Guerra Patria, en los grandes clásicos de literatura rusa, sin olvidarse de disidentes como Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Las señas de identidad del homo sovieticus no han desaparecido, se han transformado, han mutado en un nuevo sentimiento identitario que, sin querer recuperar la crítica socialista al capitalismo, cuestiona los valores de la democracia liberal. …”

“…In this wide spanning text Brintlinger traces the war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Voinovich, Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Astafiev, Viktor Pelevin, and Vasily Aksyonov. …”

“…This book traces those war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in the literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Voinovich, Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Astafiev, Viktor Pelevin, and Vasily Aksyonov. …”