Ideology and space in Soviet and USA Cold War documentaries
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-218-233
Abstract
The article highlights issues related to the peculiarities of developing the theme of space in Soviet and American documentary (popular science) films of the 1950s-1960s. The article is devoted to the issues related to the peculiarities of the development of the space theme in documentary (popular science) films of the Cold War period. Analyzing materials (movies and TV films, scripts) of Russian and foreign archives, the author identifies key strategies that allowed the USSR and the USA to broadcast in documentaries about space and the universe, near-Earth and interplanetary flights such key ideas for those years, as colonization, technocratism, etc. Special attention is paid to the function of a commentator and visual solutions, which made it possible to implement the tasks of propaganda on documentary film and television material. Space themes in cinema and television of the USSR and the USA during the Cold War were supposed to clearly demonstrate the advantage of each of the rival superpowers. In popular science films about space, the technological rivalry between the two superpowers took the form of an ideological confrontation.
About the Author
M. F. Kazyuchits
All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimova
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maksim F. Kazyuchits, Cand. of Sci. (Philosophy), associate professor
3, Wilhelm Pieck St., Moscow, 129226
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Kazyuchits M.F. Ideology and space in Soviet and USA Cold War documentaries. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(7(2)):218-233. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-218-233
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