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Screening Soviet Nationalities - Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia (Hardcover)
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Screening Soviet Nationalities - Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia (Hardcover)
Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
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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.
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