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Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War

By Professor Emma Widdis

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0300092911, 9780300092912
LCC
PN1993.5.R9 W53 2003
Open Library ID
OL22536992M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1247488 bytes)
Pages
272\271
Topic
Art Cinema
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00
Искусство и искусствоведение;Искусство кинематогра

Description

In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable" space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territory of the Soviet Union. This text shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support for state initiatives in the years between the Revolution and World War II, helping to create a new Russian identity and territory - an "imaginary geography" of Sovietness. Drawing on a vast range of little-known texts, Emma Widdis offers a cultural history of the early Soviet period. In particular, she shows how films projected the new Soviet map on to the great shared screen of the popular imagination.

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