Title Screening Soviet Nationalities : Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia

Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (322 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Endorsement; Series information; Dedication; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations ; General Editors' Preface ; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Glossary ; Introduction: Projects of a New Vision; Constructing Soviet Nationalities; Virtual Travelling: Maps, Itineraries, and Politics of Vision; Local Sights, Global Visions: Russian and Soviet Travel Films; Across the Soviet Travelogues: The Roadmap; 1 They Must be Represented: Kulturfilm and the National Niche in Soviet Cinema Cultural, Ethnographic, Documentary: The Elusive Film ClassificationThink With Us, Think Like Us! Shaping the Audience through Film; Vostokfilm: The Studio for the Soviet 'Other'; 2 Absolute Kinography: Vertov's Cine-Race Across the Soviet Universe; Advertising the Soviet Universe; New Imperial Catalogue: Surveying Ethnic Bodies; Network Community: Gostorg and the New Soviet Unity; Rhetorical Battles over Modernity and Backwardness; 3 Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet Far North; The Contact Zone: National Variety beyond the Arctic Circle; Arctic Tales: From Contact Zone to Icy Desert Tragedy into Triumph: The Rise of Affective Travelogues4 Forest People, Wild and Tamed: Travelogues in the Far East; The First Blueprints: Following Arsenev's Trail; Self-reflexive Tale: Film-diary and Subjectivity; Terra Incognita: Exploring the Frontier; Land of the Golds: Amo Bek-Nazarov's Two Versions of Progress; Babylon Re-enacted: The Nanai, the Chinese, and the Jews in Mikhail Slutskii's Far East; Birobidzhan: Civilizing the Wilderness; Playing the Native: Transformation of Expedition Films; 5 Diagnosing the Nations: Nationalizing Dirt and Disease on the Screen Syphilis Against Socialism: Medical Expedition as a Bearer of Social ProgressClearing the Vision: Eye Diseases and Constructions of New National Bodies; Journeys of Health: Tourist Bodies in Motion; 6 Touring the Caucasus; Dagestan: The Space of Diversity; Chechnya As It Is: Native and Tourist Gazes; The Heart of the Mountains: Svanetia Wild and Conquered; 7 Camels and Railways: Reframing Central Asia; Views from the Roof of the World: Mapping the Pamir Mountains and its Peoples; The Iron Unity: Conquering Turkestan; Turksib as a Media Campaign; Future of the Desert Imagined Community: Unveiling the Kino-Eye Epilogue: Day of a New World; Notes; Introduction: Projects of a New Vision; 1. They Must Be Represented: Kulturfilm and the National Niche in Soviet Cinema; 2. Absolute Kinography: Vertov's Cine-Race Across the Soviet Universe; 3. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet Far North; 4. Forest People, Wild and Tamed: Travelogues in the Far East; 5. Diagnosing the Nations: Nationalizing Dirt and Disease on the Screen; 6. Touring the Caucasus; 7. Camels and Railways: Reframing Central Asia; Epilogue: Day of a New World; Filmography; Bibliography Summary "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 Notes Archival Sources Print version record Subject Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 Nationalism in motion pictures. Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Political aspects Motion pictures -- Social aspects Nationalism in motion pictures SUBJECT Soviet Union -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97001991 Subject Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781786730404 1786730405

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