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Russian Aviation, Space Flight and Visual Culture book cover

1st Edition

Russian Aviation, Space Flight and Visual Culture

Edited By Vlad Strukov, Helena Goscilo Copyright 2017
316 Pages 90 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 90 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 90 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Among the many successes of the Soviet Union were inaugural space flight—ahead of the United States—and many other triumphs related to aviation. Aviators and cosmonauts enjoyed heroic status in the Soviet Union, and provided supports of the Soviet project with iconic figures which could be used to bolster the regime’s visions, self-confidence, and the image of itself as forward looking and... Read more
Introduction

PART I - Art and Architecture

1. Ever Onwards, Ever Upwards: Representing the Aviation Hero in Soviet Art, Mike O’Mahony

2. Deineka’s Heavenly Bodies: Space, Sports, and the Sacred, Helena Goscilo

3. Comic Cosmonaut: Space Exploration and Visual Satire in Krokodil in The Thaw, John Etty

4. Flying City or Housing Freed from Gravity: Ideas of Space Travel and  Internationalism in G.T. Krutikov’s City of the Future, Aleksandra Idzior

5. Neo-cosmism, Empire, and Contemporary Russian Art: Aleksei Belyaev-Gintovt, Maria Engström

PART II - Film, Animation and Computer Games

6. Special / Spatial Effects in Soviet Cinema, Birgit Beumers

7. Leaving the House of Dreams: The Myth of Flight in Russian Films of the 2000s, Julian Graffy

8. Animal Aviators: Refashioning Soviet Myths in Contemporary Russian Digital Animation, Vlad Strukov

9. Screening Aviation, Mediating Memory: Andrei Kavun’s Kandahar, Anindita Banerjee

10. Simulating Sturm und Drang: Theorizing Digital Historization, Commemoration, and Participation, Vlad Strukov

Biography

Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor in Film and Digital Culture in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Helena Goscilo is Professor of Slavic at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US.

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