Author Lars Kristensen

Lars Kristensen

Lars Kristensen is a PhD candidate in the department of Film Studies, the University of St Andrews, where he is researching cinematic representations of post-Soviet Russians abroad. He has taught Russian at the University of Glasgow, where he also completed his Masters of Philosophy on the Russian filmmaker Aleksei Balabanov.

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Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film by Yana Hashamova

Lars Kristensen

May 2008

There is no question of the achievements of Yana Hashamova in this vivid publication on post-Soviet cinema and I see Pride and Panic as an important development in scholarly writings in this area. This developm...