Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt
International audience How can we get insights into early Soviet cinema screenings for indigenous audiences in the Siberian taiga at the end of the 1920s? Preserved by the Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Museum (Russia), the recently published diaries of Alexandra Putintseva, a cultural worker posted a...
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ftunivparis10:oai:HAL:hal-04129074v1 2023-10-25T01:44:19+02:00 Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt Damiens, Caroline Histoire des Arts et des Représentations (HAR) Université Paris Nanterre (UPN) 2023-04-03 https://hal.science/hal-04129074 https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939 en eng HAL CCSD Taylor & Francis (Routledge) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939 hal-04129074 https://hal.science/hal-04129074 doi:10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939 ISSN: 1746-0654 EISSN: 1746-0662 Early Popular Visual Culture https://hal.science/hal-04129074 Early Popular Visual Culture, 2023, 21 (2), pp.189-207. ⟨10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939⟩ Film exhibition indigenous audience Siberia Soviet Union political enlightenment audiences [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology [SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftunivparis10 https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939 2023-09-25T06:38:14Z International audience How can we get insights into early Soviet cinema screenings for indigenous audiences in the Siberian taiga at the end of the 1920s? Preserved by the Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Museum (Russia), the recently published diaries of Alexandra Putintseva, a cultural worker posted at the ‘Far Eastern red yurt’ from 1929 to 1932, are a valuable source to investigate the issue. Putintseva’s diaries provide a wealth of information on movie screenings within these particular Soviet institutions, as well as their reception by indigenous audiences. They show that, far from the common colonial stereotype, indigenous audience was not astonished or frightened in front of the cinematic spectacle or apparatus. Furthermore, they also offer essential information on the immediate context within which these screenings took place, an issue of equal importance in understanding what cinema as a social practice meant for indigenous audiences. Performed in a multifunctional building aiming to radically change (‘modernise’) indigenous (‘traditional’) way of life, cinema was classified as political enlightenment work. As a result, for the indigenous audience, watching films was intimately intertwined with the new Bolshevik society and its modernising endeavour. Ultimately, the diaries illustrate what I have termed ‘cinema-coming’ (when the expected audience does not go to the cinema, cinema ‘comes’ to the audience), in which film exhibition was closely linked to state ideology and the formation of modern citizens. Article in Journal/Newspaper taiga Siberia Université Paris Nanterre: HAL Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) Early Popular Visual Culture 21 2 189 207 |
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International audience How can we get insights into early Soviet cinema screenings for indigenous audiences in the Siberian taiga at the end of the 1920s? Preserved by the Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Museum (Russia), the recently published diaries of Alexandra Putintseva, a cultural worker posted at the ‘Far Eastern red yurt’ from 1929 to 1932, are a valuable source to investigate the issue. Putintseva’s diaries provide a wealth of information on movie screenings within these particular Soviet institutions, as well as their reception by indigenous audiences. They show that, far from the common colonial stereotype, indigenous audience was not astonished or frightened in front of the cinematic spectacle or apparatus. Furthermore, they also offer essential information on the immediate context within which these screenings took place, an issue of equal importance in understanding what cinema as a social practice meant for indigenous audiences. Performed in a multifunctional building aiming to radically change (‘modernise’) indigenous (‘traditional’) way of life, cinema was classified as political enlightenment work. As a result, for the indigenous audience, watching films was intimately intertwined with the new Bolshevik society and its modernising endeavour. Ultimately, the diaries illustrate what I have termed ‘cinema-coming’ (when the expected audience does not go to the cinema, cinema ‘comes’ to the audience), in which film exhibition was closely linked to state ideology and the formation of modern citizens. |
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Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt |
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Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt |
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Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt |
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ISSN: 1746-0654 EISSN: 1746-0662 Early Popular Visual Culture https://hal.science/hal-04129074 Early Popular Visual Culture, 2023, 21 (2), pp.189-207. ⟨10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939⟩ |
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