The Return

John Givens: "Zviagintsev's 'Return' as Second Coming: The Anxiety of Belief in Russian Cinema"
John Givens is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Rochester. He is the co-translator of Vasily Shukshin, Stories from a Siberian Village (1996), the author of Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shukshin in Soviet Russian Culture (2000), and, since 1999, the editor of Russian Studies in Literature, a quarterly journal of translations of contemporary Russian literary criticism. He is currently completing a book on the image of Jesus Christ in Russian literature