Soviet Far East in the films of Alexey Kusheshvili

Authors

  • IVAN A. GOLOVNEV Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) RAS (St. Petersburg, Russia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-3/94-103

Keywords:

Soviet Far East, Soviet film atlas, Alexey Kusheshvili, film expeditions, film images

Abstract

The article aims to introduce into scientific circulation information about the visual archives of the first Far Eastern film-reporter A.Z. Kusheshvili, including the cinema-documents «Chita–Sakhalin» (1930) and «The Road to the Taiga» (1931), as multi-layered historical sources. The objectives of the work include consideration of the features of film narratives about the evolution of the territories of the Far Eastern territory during the period of cultural and economic transformations in the USSR at the turn of the 1920s–1930s in the context of the development of approaches to cinema as a resource of visual policy within the framework of the state project «Cinema-Atlas of the USSR».

Author Biography

  • IVAN A. GOLOVNEV, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) RAS (St. Petersburg, Russia)

    Doctor of Historical Sciences, senior researcher at the Center for Arctic Research.

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Published

30-09-2023

Issue

No. 3 (2023): Humanitarian research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East

Section

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN REGIONS

How to Cite

Soviet Far East in the films of Alexey Kusheshvili. (2023). Humanitarian Research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East, 3, 94-103. https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-3/94-103