wide is my motherland
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Wide is My Motherland
Soviet Imperial Space Construc8on
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Grigorii Aleksandrov 1903-‐1986 co-‐director of Sergei Eisenstein screenwriter actor director the head of Mosfil’m
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I am lighthearted Jolly Fellows, 1934
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Wide is My Motherland The Circus, 1936
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Jolly Fellows, 1934
A shepherd Kos8a travels to Moscow to become famous. Aniuta falls in love with Kos8a and helps him in Moscow to make a performance in the Bolshoi Theater
The Circus, 1936 In the 1930s, an American actress, who has an Afro-‐American child escapes from the US to the USSR. In Moscow, she makes a performance and decides to stays in the USSR because this country is non discriminatory. Her friend-‐lover teaches her new values and helps her to stay
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music: Isaak Dunaevsky words: Vasily Lebedev-‐Kumach
from horizontal to ver8cal structures I am lighthearted Песня веселых ребят everyday vocabulary simple melody horizontal camera movements microspaces of everyday life
Wide is My Motherland Песня о Родине high register of Russian sophis8cated melody ver8cal camera movements ideologically important places
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From Eccentricity to Imperial Values
Jolly Fellows, 1934 • eccentricity • classless society • demo8c characters in the
focus • everyday language • jokes • dance • decentered and dynamic
space • camera as an instrument of
an anthropologic research
The Circus, 1936 • poli8cal ideas • class society: proletariat on
the top • higher classes in the focus • elevated register of Russian
language • triumphant style • sta8c and centered on
Moscow space • camera as an instrument of
discipline and control
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aerial shot controls, maps, frames and orders
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Imperial Space Structures
• center-‐metropole (SPb=>Moscow) vs. heartland and borders • long and blurred borders
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Imperial Space Structures
• center-‐metropole (SPb=>Moscow) vs. heartland and borders • long and blurred borders => extension of power from the center–metropole out => appropria8on of the territory
• country vs. territory
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The Russian Empire was the largest in space nd the most durable in 8me of all historical emires, covering 65 million square kilometers-‐years for Muskovy/Russia/Soviet Union versus 45 million for the Bri8sh Empire and 30 million for the Roman Empire
Rein Taagepera An Overview of the Growth of
the Russian Empire
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Aleksandr Etkind. Internal Coloniza?on
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Territory = country minus people The state controls the territory and does not need people in a valuable recourse-‐based economy. The state is the people, who controls the valuable recourse.
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1960-‐70s
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1980s
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2013
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Etkind, Aleksandr. Internal Coloniza?on: Russia’s Imperial Experience. Cambridge: Polity, 2011.
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Paperny, Vladimir. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Clark, Katerina. Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolu?on of Soviet Culture, 1931-‐1941. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Widdis, Emma. Visions of a New Land. New Heaven, London: Yale University Press, 2003.