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

• Autore: Widdis Emma <1970->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 258 p.) ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 791.43/0947
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Soviet Union - History
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union In motion pictures
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Visions of a new land
• ISBN: 1-281-74101-9; 9786611741013; 0-300-12758-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777857103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II