Visions of a new land
Subtitle: Soviet film from the Revolution to the Second World War
By: Emma Widdis.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- In motion pictures
Description: In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support of state initiatives in the years up to the Second World War, helping to create a new Russian identity and territory, an 'imaginary geography' of Sovietness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Projecting; title: Connecting; title: Feeling; title: Decentring; title: Exploring; title: Travelling; title: Conquest; title: Mapped?