Screening Soviet Nationalities: Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia Contributor(s): Sarkisova, Oksana (Author), Beumers, Birgit (Editor), Kaganovsky, Lilya (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1784535737 ISBN-13: 9781784535735 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 791.430 |
LCCN: 2018295261 |
Series: Kino - The Russian and Soviet Cinema |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (1.15 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |