RUSS 22000. RUSSIAN CULTURE THROUGH FILM An introduction to twentieth-century Russian society and culture through the medium of cinema, covering the immediate pre- and post-revolutionary periods, Stalinism, the post-Stalin "thaw," stagnation under Brezhnev, Gorbachevs "perestroika" and "glasnost," and the post-communist era. Weekly screenings of films will be supplemented with readings in Russian film theory and criticism. [AH, GE]