Screening Soviet nationalities : kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia /
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| Author / Creator: | Sarkisova, Oksana, author. |
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| Imprint: | London : I.B. Tauris, 2017. |
| Description: | xx, 299 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | KINO, the Russian cinema series KINO, the Russian cinema series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10939093 |
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 Classification
- Think 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 Travelogues
- 4. 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 Progress
- Clearing 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: Refraining 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
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
