Screening Soviet Nationalities
Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23174676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oksana Sarkisova, Оксана Саркисова (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Screening Soviet Nationalities (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350987944 |
| OpenAlex | W4240616702 |
| ISBN | 9781350987944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen. Such films created blueprints of the Soviet domain's scenic, cultural and ethnographic perimeters and brought together - in many ways disparate - nations under one umbrella. Categorised as kulturfilms, they served as experimental grounds for developing the cinematic formulae of a multiethnic, multinational Soviet identity. Screening Soviet Nationalities examines the non-fictional representations of Soviet borderlands from the Far North to the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia between 1925-1940. Beginning with Dziga Vertov and his vision of the Soviet space as a unified, multinational mosaic, Oksana Sarkisova rediscovers films by Vladimir Erofeev, Vladimir Shneiderov, Alexander Litvinov, Mikhail Slutskii, Amo Bek-Nazarov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Roman Karmen and other filmmakers who helped construct an image of Soviet ethnic diversity and left behind a lasting visual legacy. The book contributes to our understanding of changing ethnographic conventions of representation, looks at studies of diversity despite the homogenising ambitions of the Soviet project, and reexamines methods of blending reality and fiction as part of both ideological and educational agendas. Using a wealth of unexplored archival evidence from the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RGAKFD) as well as the Gosfilmofond state film archive, Sarkisova examines constructions of exoticism, backwardness and Soviet-driven modernity through these remarkable and underexplored historical travelogues.
Art history · Exoticism · Ideology · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Cinema and Media Studies · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |