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This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today
and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th
century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in
post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a
promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of
nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space
age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction.
Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity's imminent
expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with
extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and
economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as
cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book
presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and
legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and
warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author
analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their
structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to
trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial
resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space
age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the
past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia
are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of
the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and
potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.
This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today
and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th
century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in
post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a
promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of
nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space
age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction.
Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity's imminent
expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with
extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and
economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as
cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book
presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and
legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and
warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author
analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their
structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to
trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial
resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space
age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the
past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia
are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of
the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and
potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.
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