title: The Soviet Past on the Post-Soviet Screen
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metadata.value: Bugaeva, Lyubov D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-10-05T17:57:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-10-05T17:57:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Bugaeva, Lyubov. “The Soviet Past on the Post-Soviet Screen”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 2 (2022): 243–258. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.202 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38206
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: A popular and widespread theme in contemporary Russian cinema and television is the Soviet
  past reconstructed with various degrees of accuracy. This “documentary desire” aspires
  not only to access historical reality through visual representations of Soviet life in the 1960s,
  1970s, or 1980s, but to use Soviet images as an instrument for emotional manipulation of the
  viewer by evoking or creating “memories” for those who do not have the Soviet experience.
  The article focuses on strategies, from the “visual document” to the “factory of memories,” that
  are used to present the Soviet past on the small and large screens. It is interesting to consider
  the purpose of recycling the Soviet theme. Addressing the past does not necessarily constitute
  nostalgia; it could be a glimpse into the future, or rather, a construction of the future through
  the past. The viewer, involved in the “make-believe” strategy, not only begins to believe that
  the events shown on screen took place in reality, but also that the source of information about
  those events is reliable. The cinematic “picture” either creates an image of the Soviet past or
  replaces the existing conception in the viewer’s mind. Interestingly though, the study of TV
  series about the Soviet past demonstrates that the rejection of the inevitability of the traumatic
  experience of tragic moments in Soviet history may paradoxically contribute to finding alternative
  solutions for social conflicts in the present and in the future, and this is what these TV
  series aspire to do.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research leading to this paper was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation:
  Project no. 19-18-00414 “Soviet Culture Today (Forms of Cultural Recycling in Russian Art and Aesthetics
  of the Everyday Life. 1990s–2010s)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet past
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-Soviet cinema and television
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biopic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical film
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: TV series
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: recycling
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Soviet Past on the Post-Soviet Screen
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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