Socialist Senses
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Socialist Senses

Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940

  1. 418 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Socialist Senses

Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940

About this book

"Widdis's rich and fascinating book has opened a new perspective from which to think about the Soviet cinema." — Kritika This major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade 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: Film could both discover the world anew, and model a way of inhabiting it. Drawing upon an extraordinary array of films, noted scholar Emma 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Note on Translation and Transliteration
  10. Introduction: Feeling Soviet
  11. 1 Avant-Garde Sensations
  12. 2 Material Sensations
  13. 3 Textile Sensations
  14. 4 Socialist Sensations
  15. 5 Primitive Sensations
  16. 6 Modern Sensations
  17. 7 Socialist Feelings
  18. 8 Socialist Transformations
  19. 9 Socialist Pleasures
  20. Conclusion: The Death of Sensation
  21. Glossary of Russian Terms
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. About the Author