Strukov / Goscilo Russian Aviation, Space Flight and Visual Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-35945-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Among the many successes of the Soviet Union were inaugural space flight – ahead of the United States – and many other triumphs related to aviation. Aviators and cosmonauts enjoyed heroic status in the Soviet Union, and provided supports of the Soviet project with iconic figures which could be used to bolster the regime’s visions, self-confidence and the image of itself as forward looking and futuristic. This book explores how the themes of space flight and aviation were depicted in Soviet films, art, architecture and literature. Incorporating many illustrations, the book covers a wide range of subjects including the representation of heroes, the building of myths and the relationship between this visual art form and wider Soviet culture and society. The book also relates the subject to contemporary cultural theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strukov, Vlad

Goscilo, Helena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I - Art and Architecture

1. Ever Onwards, Ever Upwards: Representing the Aviation Hero in Soviet Art, Mike O’Mahony

2. Deineka’s Heavenly Bodies: Space, Sports, and the Sacred, Helena Goscilo

3. Comic Cosmonaut: Space Exploration and Visual Satire in Krokodil in The Thaw, John Etty

4. Flying City or Housing Freed from Gravity: Ideas of Space Travel and Internationalism in G.T. Krutikov’s City of the Future, Aleksandra Idzior

5. Neo-cosmism, Empire, and Contemporary Russian Art: Aleksei Belyaev-Gintovt, Maria Engström

PART II - Film, Animation and Computer Games

6. Special / Spatial Effects in Soviet Cinema, Birgit Beumers

7. Leaving the House of Dreams: The Myth of Flight in Russian Films of the 2000s, Julian Graffy

8. Animal Aviators: Refashioning Soviet Myths in Contemporary Russian Digital Animation, Vlad Strukov

9. Screening Aviation, Mediating Memory: Andrei Kavun’s Kandahar, Anindita Banerjee

10. Simulating Sturm und Drang: Theorizing Digital Historization, Commemoration, and Participation, Vlad Strukov

Über Autor(innen)

Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor on the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK.

Helena Goscilo is Professor of Slavic at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US.