04182nam 2200613 450 991081802580332120191015111955.01-350-98794-81-78673-040-51-78672-040-X10.5040/9781350987944(CKB)3710000001042638(MiAaPQ)EBC4792857(OCoLC)971364159(CaBNVSL)9781350987944(CaBNVSL)mat50987944(EXLCZ)99371000000104263820191015e20192016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierScreening Soviet nationalities kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia /Oksana SarkisovaFirst edition.London, England :I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,2016.London, England :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.1 online resource (322 pages) illustrationsKINO : the Russian and Soviet cinema series1-78453-573-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 273- 290), filmography (pages 266-272) and index.Introduction : projects of a new vision -- They must be represented : kulturfilm and the national niche in Soviet cinema -- Absolute kinography : Vertov's cine-race across the Soviet universe -- Arctic travelogues : conquering the Soviet Far North -- Forest people, wild and tamed : travelogues in the Far East -- Diagnosing the nations : nationalizing dirt and disease on the screen -- Touring the Caucasus -- Camels and railways : reframing Central Asia."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."--Provided by publisher.KINO, the Russian cinema series.Motion picturesPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionMotion picturesSocial aspectsSoviet UnionMotion picturesSoviet UnionHistory1925-1953Nationalism in motion picturesMedia studiesSoviet UnionIn motion picturesMotion picturesPolitical aspectsMotion picturesSocial aspectsMotion picturesHistoryNationalism in motion pictures.791.430947Sarkisova Oksana1974-934440Bloomsbury (Firm),NLECaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910818025803321Screening Soviet nationalities4060327UNINA