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Wide is My Motherland
Soviet Imperial Space Construc8on
Grigorii Aleksandrov 1903-‐1986 co-‐director of Sergei Eisenstein screenwriter actor director the head of Mosfil’m
I am lighthearted Jolly Fellows, 1934
Wide is My Motherland The Circus, 1936
Jolly Fellows, 1934
A shepherd Kos8a travels to Moscow to become famous. Aniuta falls in love with Kos8a and helps him in Moscow to make a performance in the Bolshoi Theater
The Circus, 1936 In the 1930s, an American actress, who has an Afro-‐American child escapes from the US to the USSR. In Moscow, she makes a performance and decides to stays in the USSR because this country is non discriminatory. Her friend-‐lover teaches her new values and helps her to stay
music: Isaak Dunaevsky words: Vasily Lebedev-‐Kumach
from horizontal to ver8cal structures I am lighthearted Песня веселых ребят everyday vocabulary simple melody horizontal camera movements microspaces of everyday life
Wide is My Motherland Песня о Родине high register of Russian sophis8cated melody ver8cal camera movements ideologically important places
From Eccentricity to Imperial Values
Jolly Fellows, 1934 • eccentricity • classless society • demo8c characters in the
focus • everyday language • jokes • dance • decentered and dynamic
space • camera as an instrument of
an anthropologic research
The Circus, 1936 • poli8cal ideas • class society: proletariat on
the top • higher classes in the focus • elevated register of Russian
language • triumphant style • sta8c and centered on
Moscow space • camera as an instrument of
discipline and control
aerial shot controls, maps, frames and orders
Imperial Space Structures
• center-‐metropole (SPb=>Moscow) vs. heartland and borders • long and blurred borders
Imperial Space Structures
• center-‐metropole (SPb=>Moscow) vs. heartland and borders • long and blurred borders => extension of power from the center–metropole out => appropria8on of the territory
• country vs. territory
The Russian Empire was the largest in space nd the most durable in 8me of all historical emires, covering 65 million square kilometers-‐years for Muskovy/Russia/Soviet Union versus 45 million for the Bri8sh Empire and 30 million for the Roman Empire
Rein Taagepera An Overview of the Growth of
the Russian Empire
Aleksandr Etkind. Internal Coloniza?on
Territory = country minus people The state controls the territory and does not need people in a valuable recourse-‐based economy. The state is the people, who controls the valuable recourse.
1960-‐70s
1980s
2013
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