Introduction: 'People Don't Like to Look at This': The Ex-Cinema of Kira Muratova Irina Schulzki and Irina Gradinari Part I. Rebellion of Form 1. Late Style in Kira Muratova's Eternal Return Ivan Sokolov 2. Neither Narrate nor Describe: Kira Muratova's Non-Totalising Art of Collage Irina Denischenko 3. Formalism and Defamiliarisation: A Study of Self-Reflective Form in Kira Muratova's Film Aesthetics Vera Kotelevskaya 4. 'A Different Rhythm of Breathing': Brevity in Muratova's Oeuvre Eugénie Zvonkine Part II. Reframing Gender 5. Gender Axiology in Soviet Cinema and Kira Muratova's Early Features Nikolai Poselyagin 6.

Gaze and Affect: The Asthenic Syndrome Irina Gradinari 7. Reading Muratova's Aesthetics through Fashion Marina Rojavin Part III. Community and Ethics Reimagined 8. An Ethics of Gesture in Muratova's Cinema Irina Schulzki 9. Kira Muratova's Likenesses Lida Oukaderova 10. The Screen as Cage: Dismantling the Human-Animal Divide in The Sentimental Policeman Raymond De Luca 11. The Art of Deception: Genre, Attunement, and Intention Attribution in The Tuner David G. Molina Part VI.

Interlacements and Contexts 12. Through the Looking-Glass Water: Ex-Centric Visions in Muratova and Parajanov Olha Briukhovetska 13. Dysphonia as an Art Practice: Muratova, Tarkovsky, Gogoberidze Lilya Kaganovsky 14. Loss of Control in Auteur Film: Agnès Varda and Kira Muratova Michael Niehaus 15. Performatism of Language in the Films of Kira Muratova and Herbert Achternbusch Ilja Kukuj 16. Kira Muratova in the Ukrainian Cinematic Process: Perspectives from National Film Scholarship Larysa Naumova Index.