The thaw doll. “Completing” the fairy tale about Pinocchio in Soviet children’s screen culture of the 1950s – 1960s
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-234-250
Abstract
The article is based on documentary materials on the film “The Adventures of Pinocchio” (A. Ivanov-Vano, D. Babichenko). During the years of the Thaw, cinematographers argued about the need for a film based on the fairy tale story by A. Tolstoy. By this time, stereotypes had formed in solving the image of Pinocchio, which were gradually revised in Soviet children’s culture: in theater, illustrations, comics, filmstrips. The new film adaptation was made by A. Ivanov-Vano and D. Babichenko. Different assessments of this idea are given, the cultural and historical landscape on which the film originated is reconstructed. The reference point for the new animated film was the production of W. Disney. The previously unpublished documents on the production of the film, materials of the art councils of Soyuzmultfilm (RGALI) are analyzed. They allow us to construct key discourses within which leading children’s artists (E. Migunov, V. Suteev, L. Atamanov, F. Khitruk, etc.), which were authors of the main animation studio of the country “Souzmultfilm”, created their images.
Keywords
Pinocchio,
Burattino,
A.N. Tolstoy,
tale,
theatre,
art,
Thaw,
puppet in culture Nina Yu. Sputnitskaya
About the Author
N. Yu. Sputnitskaya
All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimova
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nina Yu. Sputnitskaya, Cand. of Sci. (Art Studies), associate professor
3, Wilhelm Pieck St., Moscow, 129226
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For citations:
Sputnitskaya N.Yu. The thaw doll. “Completing” the fairy tale about Pinocchio in Soviet children’s screen culture of the 1950s – 1960s. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(7(2)):234-250. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-234-250
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