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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777857103321

Autore

Widdis Emma <1970->

Titolo

Visions of a new land [[electronic resource] ] : Soviet film from the Revolution to the Second World War / / Emma Widdis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-281-74101-9

9786611741013

0-300-12758-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 258 p.) ) : ill., maps

Disciplina

791.43/0947

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Soviet Union - History

Soviet Union In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Projecting -- Connecting -- Feeling -- Decentring -- Exploring -- Travelling -- Conquest -- Mapped?

Sommario/riassunto

In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable" space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territory of the Soviet Union. This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support for state initiatives in the years between the revolution and the Second World War, helping to create a new Russian identity and territory-an "imaginary geography" of Sovietness.Drawing on a vast range of little-known texts, Emma Widdis offers a unique cultural history of the early Soviet period. In particular, she shows how films projected the new Soviet map onto the great shared screen of the popular imagination.