2021, ISBN: 9781793609328

Memorable Futures, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and… More...

Memorable Futures, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity's imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions. [PU: Lexington Books], Seiten: 256, Lexington Books, 2021<

2021, ISBN: 9781793609328

Memorable Futures, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and… More...

Memorable Futures, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity's imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions. [PU: Lexington Books], Seiten: 256, Lexington Books, 2021<

2021, ISBN: 9781793609328

Lexington Books, Kindle Edition, Auflage: 1, 257 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Film, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, Russia, His… More...

Lexington Books, Kindle Edition, Auflage: 1, 257 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Film, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, Russia, History, United States, Americas, Film & Video, Kindle eBooks, Categories, Kindle Store, English Language Store, fd9aabf3-bc3b-41dc-8755-20b8be10c196_8101, fd9aabf3-bc3b-41dc-8755-20b8be10c196_0, Special Features Stores, Arborist Merchandising Root, Format: Kindle eBook, Lexington Books, 2021<

2021, ISBN: 9781793609328

Lexington Books, Kindle Edition, Auflage: 1, 257 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Film, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, Russia, His… More...

Lexington Books, Kindle Edition, Auflage: 1, 257 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Film, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, Russia, History, Americas, Film & Video, Kindle eBooks, Categories, Kindle Store, English Language Store, fd9aabf3-bc3b-41dc-8755-20b8be10c196_8101, fd9aabf3-bc3b-41dc-8755-20b8be10c196_0, Special Features Stores, Arborist Merchandising Root, Format: Kindle eBook, Lexington Books, 2021<

ISBN: 9781793609328

This study examines Soviet science fiction cinema from 1957 to 1990 and its relation to the space age. The author examines dozens of films and examines their aesthetics and how the films … More...

This study examines Soviet science fiction cinema from 1957 to 1990 and its relation to the space age. The author examines dozens of films and examines their aesthetics and how the films related to conceptions of the future, utopia, the ideological guidelines of the Soviet state, and changes within the Soviet system. Digital Content>E-books>World History>Europe History>Russia Hist, Bloomsbury Publishing Digital >16<