Visions of a New Land

Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War

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by Emma Widdis

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Russia / USSR

Keywords

Soviet cinema, 1920s, 1930s

Publishing date

2012

Publisher

Yale University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 272 pages
5 ¾ x 9 inches (14.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-300-19469-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Emma Widdis is lecturer in the Slavonic department at the University of Cambridge.

See the publisher website: Yale University Press