CIVIC SACREDNESS OF CHILDHOOD IN SOVIET FILM MYTHOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.34680/EISCRT-2023-1(2)-109-139

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archetype, childhood mythology, cinematography, Soviet person, visual ideology

Abstract

After the Great Patriotic War, Soviet society began to rethink its own social values, transforming them in accordance with the new geopolitical reality. The existential rethinking of the majority of pre-war and military film plots made it possible to discover a new subject field for visualizing the mythology of the Soviet person. Soviet childhood, a necessary stage in the formation of the worldview of the Soviet person, is becoming such a space. The theme of childhood in the plot palette of Soviet cinema definitively affirms the motif of the artistic depiction of people's everyday life, which allows one to focus on the visualization of the processes of formation of individual feelings and thoughts of movie characters. References to the early periods of biography make it possible to more fully reconstruct and visualize the existential dramaturgy of the Soviet person. Thus, the preconditions for the development of individual experience were created as a condition for the formation of the actual memory of Soviet generations, which were eminently productively used by communist ideology. Such a practice has an undoubted psychoanalytic value and acts as the basis for a person’s internal dialogue with themselves and with society as a whole. Despite the obvious political bias of the post-war Soviet cinema, it managed to correspond to the archetypal models of classical mythologies as much as possible and maintain the proper level of sacredness in society.

 

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Malenko, S. A., & Nekita, A. G. (2023). Civic sacredness of childhood in soviet film mythology. Experience industries. Socio-Cultural Research Technologies (EISCRT), 1 (2), 109-139. (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.34680/EISCRT-2023-1(2)-109-139

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Author Biographies

Sergey Malenko, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod, Russia

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Sociology
e-mail: olenia@mail.ru

Andre Nekita, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod, Russia

доктор философских наук, профессор, профессор кафедры философии, культурологии и социологии
beresten@mail.ru

 

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2023-03-29

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Malenko, S., & Nekita, A. (2023). CIVIC SACREDNESS OF CHILDHOOD IN SOVIET FILM MYTHOLOGY. Experience Industries. Socio-Cultural Research Technologies, (1 (2), 2023), 109–139. https://doi.org/10.34680/EISCRT-2023-1(2)-109-139

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No. 1 (2), 2023: Experience industries. Socio-Cultural Research Technologies

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Traditions