Screening Russian youth: An introduction

Abstract

ABSTRACT This introduction outlines the scope of the cluster presented in this issue (17.1) of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema on the representation of youth on late-Soviet and Russian screens. It connects the arguments made in the three contributions by Irina Souch, Vadim Mikhailin, and Galina Belyaeva; by Laura Todd; and by Emily Schuckman Matthews, concerning the emergence on screen of the young hero from the 1960s as a representative of sincerity, who contrasts with the older generation; the growing non-conformism and aggression of the younger generation in the late 1970s and 1980s; and the erupting violence in late-Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.