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'HERE WILL BE A GARDEN-CITY' : SOVIET MAN ON AN ARCTIC CONSTRUCTION SITE. / Bugaeva, Lyubov.
FILMS ON ICE: CINEMAS OF THE ARCTIC: Traditions in World Cinema Eup. ed. / Scott MacKenzie ; Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015. p. 310-324 24 (Traditions in World Cinema).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - 'HERE WILL BE A GARDEN-CITY'
T2 - SOVIET MAN ON AN ARCTIC CONSTRUCTION SITE
AU - Bugaeva, Lyubov
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Films of the 1970s focus on the heroism of every-day life and work beyond the Arctic Circle. The mythology of discovery and conquering is transformed into the mythology of construction and conquering, but conquering nature and climate, not the land. Shock-work construction projects (though some of them like Baikal-Amur Mainline date back to the 1930s) become one of the characteristics of the period and establish a certain approach to the Arctic: the waste virgin land, which is to be transformed into an oasis through the creative and constructive imagination of the Soviet man. Thus "a Garden-City" (Mayakovsky) built in the virgin land becomes a dominant concept. Among the films that develop the concept and create the image of the Soviet hero, who is a builder and an engineer, are "Lyubit' Cheloveka" ("The Love of Mankind", 1972) and "Obyknovennaya Arktika" ("The Ordinary Arctic", 1976). This chapter will explore the representation of the Arctic "under construction" and the new characters brought to life in Sov
AB - Films of the 1970s focus on the heroism of every-day life and work beyond the Arctic Circle. The mythology of discovery and conquering is transformed into the mythology of construction and conquering, but conquering nature and climate, not the land. Shock-work construction projects (though some of them like Baikal-Amur Mainline date back to the 1930s) become one of the characteristics of the period and establish a certain approach to the Arctic: the waste virgin land, which is to be transformed into an oasis through the creative and constructive imagination of the Soviet man. Thus "a Garden-City" (Mayakovsky) built in the virgin land becomes a dominant concept. Among the films that develop the concept and create the image of the Soviet hero, who is a builder and an engineer, are "Lyubit' Cheloveka" ("The Love of Mankind", 1972) and "Obyknovennaya Arktika" ("The Ordinary Arctic", 1976). This chapter will explore the representation of the Arctic "under construction" and the new characters brought to life in Sov
KW - Soviet cinema
KW - the Arctic Circle
KW - Sergei Gerasimov
KW - "City of Youth" (Komsomolsk)
KW - "The Seven Bold Ones"
KW - "The Love of Mankind (Lyubit’ cheloveka)"
KW - Alexei Simonov
KW - "The Ordinary Arctic (Obyknovennaya Arktika)".
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M3 - глава/раздел
SN - 978-0748694174
SN - 074869417X
T3 - Traditions in World Cinema
SP - 310
EP - 324
BT - FILMS ON ICE: CINEMAS OF THE ARCTIC
A2 - MacKenzie , Scott
A2 - Westerståhl Stenport, Anna
PB - Edinburgh University Press
CY - Edinburgh
ER -
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