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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Soviet Film"”.
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For the potential of Kierkegaardian analysis in Soviet studies through the study of Soviet film
… philosophy as a tool of analysis in the field of Soviet studies demonstrated through the character analysis of select Soviet films. From Danish, existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s model of faith, presented in his follow-up to Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, I will use the model and its …
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Shklovsky in the Cinema, 1926-1932
… Viktor Shklovsky’s earliest activities in the Soviet film industry, this project will explore how narrative, aesthetic, and ideological programmes were repeatedly and variously moulded, undermined, and complicated by the twentieth-century Russian avant-garde interest in dissolving creative …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
Do we treat 1990s as a gap, a rupture between the Soviet past and the post-Soviet present? Post-Soviet film and fiction certainly stage the break up of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet rule in this way. Post-Soviet culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest …
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
… visual and written culture of the interwar Soviet Union dealing with the body as an object of public observation, appreciation, and critique. It explores how the need to construct new Soviet subjectivities was realised through the figure of the body. I explore the representation of ‘physical …
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
… of existing porcelain “blanks,” clothing, film footage, and architecture from the newly requisitioned “collective stock” underwent transformation. For example,at Paris’s glamorous international exposition of industrial and decorative arts in 1925, a former Russian dressmaker to the Imperial …
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… dissertation is to trace the dynamics present in film representations of women characters during the Thaw, Perestroika, and the ealy 1990s by identifying and analyzing female types appearing on screen as a result of political, economic, and social changes during the two periods. The given periods …