Russian Imagination of the West in the Post-Soviet film deals with film images, characters and themes to consider how Russia has responded and adapted to the expansion of capital and Western culture in Russia itself. My analysis generally focuses on films produced in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, giving special attention to those made over the last five or six years – a period when the Russian film industry began to revive and became more the market becomes, which fully reflects social anxiety. Based on the film’s imagery, I am addressing a number of troubling questions: How is the image of the other built in recent Russian cinema? Is it possible to adhere to a foreign culture and at the same time afraid of her? How does this fear on the perception of self and other in training constantly changing identity? What are the fantasies and defenses that operate when national identity and culture is changing? This study on the book of imagination of Russia from the West as it developed at the turn of the millennium, an imagination which, in its shifting feelings, fantasies, fears and anxieties similar changes similar to those experienced by the adolescent quest for identity more stable and permanent.
Russian national identity adapts to the overwhelming political, social, economic and cultural transformations taking place in Russia and in the global world. In this restructuring, the Russian collective imagination responds to the Western presence in Russian society and culture, as exhibits disparate approaches which take the form of unnecessary and impatient attitude of (West), others, aggressive and paranoid URGE, a complete rejection of foreign models, search for domestic sources positive identification and a more mature and reflects the perception of oneself and the other with their constructive and destructive aspects.
