Socialist Senses - Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917-1940 (Hardcover)

This major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a 'sensory revolution' to accompany political and social change: Soviet men and women were to be reborn into a revitalized relationship with the material world. Cinema was seen as a privileged site for the creation of this sensory revolution: film could both discover the world anew, and model a way of inhabiting it. Drawing upon an extraordinary array of films, noted scholar Emma Widdis shows how Soviet cinema, as it evolved from the revolutionary avant-garde to Socialist Realism, gradually shifted its materialist agenda from emphasizing the external senses to instilling the appropriate internal senses (consciousness, emotions) in the new Soviet subject.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Emma Widdis
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	418
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-02633-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	0-253-02633-4
Barcode:	9780253026330

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