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ID090694
Title ProperSoviet rule, nation and film
Other Title Informationthe Kyrgyz 'wonder' years
LanguageENG
AuthorCummings, Sally N
Publication2009.
Summary / Abstract (Note)What happens if a community is encouraged to imagine itself visually when its political vessel is a modernising nation-state within a multinational communist federation? Cinematic works, in their distillation of time and space, contribute to the kinds of imaginings that sustain nation-states. How this cultural technology reflected and promoted nation-building in the Soviet era is the subject of this article. It explores how the tensions within the diktat 'national in form, socialist in content' played out in practice in the Soviet cultural landscape of 1960s Kyrgyz film, dubbed by Soviet critics as a 'wonder'
`In' analytical NoteNations and Nationalism Vol. 15, No. 4; Oct 2009: p636-657
Journal SourceNations and Nationalism Vol. 15, No. 4; Oct 2009: p636-657
Key WordsCinema ;  Culture ;  Kyrgyz ;  Memory ;  Nation ;  Soviet