Socialist senses : film, feeling, and the Soviet subject, 1917-1940 / Emma Widdis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widdis, Emma, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Soviet Union--History.

Motion pictures.

Soviet Union.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 407 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Summary:

In a major reimagining of the history and cultural impact of Soviet film, noted film scholar Emma Widdis explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remand the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a "sensory revolution" to accompany political and social change: Soviet men and women were to be reborn into a revitalized relationship with the material world. Cinema was seen as a privileged site for the creation of this sensory revolution as film could both discover the world anew and model a way of inhabiting it. Drawing on an extraordinary array of films, Widdis shows how Soviet cinema, as it evolved from the revolutionary avant-garde to Socialist Realism, gradually shifted its materialist agenda from emphasizing the external senses to instilling the appropriate internal senses (consciousness, emotions) in the new Soviet subject Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: feeling Soviet

Avant-garde sensations

Material sensations

Textile sensations

Socialist sensations

Primitive sensations

Modern sensations

Socialist feelings

Socialist transformations

Socialist pleasures

Conclusion: the death of sensation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Widdis, Emma, 1970- author. Socialist senses

ISBN:

9780253026330

0253026334

9780253026941

0253026946

OCLC:

962435303