Did the Revolution Happen

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ID4437355
AuthorsJohn Mackay (0000-0002-4883-195X, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume116
Issue4
Pages797-813
Publication date2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-4235016
OpenAlexW2793669335
LanguageEN
References cited11

The Russian Revolution, so often monumentalized as a singular event—not least by the Bolsheviks themselves—was an inherently plural happening, involving the disparate actions and aspirations of peasants, workers, national minorities, and many others. Although early Soviet cinema certainly partook of the dominant “productivist” and progressivist ideology of the period, it also explored, sometimes willy-nilly, the revolutionary “event” as something multiple and even uncentered. This paper, focused on the work of Dziga Vertov, investigates a number of ways—including the valorization of artisanal creative practice and a radical inquiry into the possibilities of montage—that film remained faithful to that plurality and might even offer strategies for critiquing the presentist ideology of our own time

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Event (particle physics) · Happening · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Movie theater · Performance art · Period (music) · Plural · Political science · Politics · Presentism · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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