title: Wartime Leningrad Cinemas: During and After the Blockade
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metadata.value: Volkov, E. V.
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metadata.value: Sapronov, M. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-12-29T23:26:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-12-29T23:26:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Volkov E. V., Sapronov M. V. ‘Wartime Leningrad Cinemas: During and After the Blockade’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 3, 2022, pp. 581–595. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.303 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38804
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article considers cinemas in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War was a social space, which,
  using concept of the French sociologist Henri Lefebvre, can be considered as having three levels. First, there is a
  “representation of space”, that implies these aspects: how cinemas were represented and embodied in material
  forms (architectural appearance and interior decoration), and how the work of this institution was planned. The
  second level is “spatial practices”: the functioning of the cinema in real conditions through the activities of its
  employees, which could differ from orders from above. The third level is the “space of representations”, or how
  the cinema appears to viewers who visited it. During the Great Patriotic War, the social space of architectural
  structures in Leningrad cinemas largely remained the same as in the pre-war period. However, in wartime, mobilization
  acquired a larger character in cinemas. The spatial practices of cinema employees, whose composition
  has undergone changes in connection with the mass conscription to the front, labor mobilizations, diseases, and
  high mortality (mostly elderly and disabled people worked there) were also been transformed. The working day
  for cinema workers increased significantly. At the same time, a number of cinemas in Leningrad were temporarily
  closed and “conserved”. Cinemas as “spaces of representation” were associated for many viewers with a place
  of cultural practices, recreation, and distraction from the scourge of war. The repertoire of cinemas in Leningrad
  in contrast to the pre-war period, has changed significantly in the direction of increasing the display of newsreels,
  educational and documentary films, as well as military-historical feature films and “allied films” of American and
  British production.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 20-09-00-107 “City cinema
  of the Soviet era: transformation of social space (Moscow — Leningrad — Chelyabinsk)”.
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: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: film network
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social space
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: blockade
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Wartime Leningrad Cinemas: During and After the Blockade
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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