Format:
xiv, 243 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198831099
Series Statement:
Emotions in history
Content:
Stalin-eraf cinema was designed to promote emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person - ranging from happiness and victorious laughter, to hatred for enemies. Feeling Revolution shows how the Soviet film industry's efforts to find an emotionally resonant language that could speak to a mass audience came to centre on the development of a distinctively 'Soviet' cinema. Its case studies of specific film genres, including production films, comedies, thrillers, and melodramas, explore how the genre rules established by Western and prerevolutionary Russian cinema were reoriented to new emotional settings. 'Sovietising' audience emotions did not prove to be an easy feat. The tensions, frustrations, and missteps of this process are outlined in Feeling Revolution, with reference to a wide variety of primary sources, including the artistic council discussions of the Mosfil'm and Lenfil'm studios and the Ministry of Cinematography. Bringing the limitations of the Stalinist ideological project to light, Anna Toropova reveals cinema's capacity to contest the very emotional norms that it was entrusted with crafting.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 209-231
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Dissertation University College London
Language:
English
Subjects:
Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Sowjetunion
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Kino
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Gefühl
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Politik
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Stalinismus
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Geschichte 1928-1953
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Hochschulschrift
