title: The "Bandit" Film Genre and its Flourishing during First World War
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metadata.value: Ustyugova, V. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T12:31:54Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T12:31:54Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Ustyugova V. V. ‘The "Bandit" Film Genre and its Flourishing during First World War’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 4, 2018, pp. 983–997.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.413
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15289
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metadata.value: Films of the criminal genre were widely popular among Russian audiences during the First World War
  and on the eve of the Revolution. Viewers of first-screen cinemas were attracted by foreign, French, and American
  adventure films, such as “Zigomar,” “Rocambole,” “Fantomas,” “Vampires,” “The New Exploits of Elaine,”
  and others. Mass audiences watched “Sonia the Golden hand,” “Vaska Chyrkin,” “Sashka, the seminary student,”
  and “Anton Krechet,” with their scenarios based on criminal news. “Stenka Razin,” “Emelka Pugachev,” and
  films about typical bandits remained popular. The reasons for the popularity of the criminal adventure genre are
  grounded both in the typical Russian pre-revolutionary situation, in urbanization processes, and in the expansion
  of the social basis of spectator culture as a whole. The “bandit” film portrays different sociocultural and sociopsychological
  needs of the viewers using strong sensations, escapist experiences, and safety. The image of the
  social bandit was attractive to lower strata audiences and was likely to show a certain escalation in aggressive
  behavior and crime in wartime society. Further, moral narratives of criminal films raised anxiety and expectations
  of narrow-minded viewers, since laws of the popular genre were expected to provide inevitable punishment for
  the criminals. “Bandit” films were successful business projects in cinematography in its early development, along
  with other popular entertainment genres of culture and leisure time practices in modern society. What is more,
  in some cases they appeared as аrt projects thanks to their creators’ talents, had an impact on art development,
  and represented the spirit of modernity.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urbanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mass culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criminal genre
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: detective
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The "Bandit" Film Genre and its Flourishing during First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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