Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age - Memorable Futures

This study examines Soviet science fiction cinema from 1957 to 1990 and its relation to the space age. The author examines dozens of films and examines their aesthetics and how the films related to conceptions of the future, utopia, the ideological guidelines of the Soviet state, and changes within the Soviet system.

List of contents

Introduction: "To Begin With, There Must Be a Will to Remember."
Chapter 1: Soviet Space and the Battlegrounds of 20th Century Science Fiction Cinema
Chapter 2: Aelita's Mark and the Many Faces of Utopia
¿hapter 3: The Space Futures of Socialist Realism
Chapter 4: The Space Age and Its Others: Soviet SF between Gagarin and Gorbachev
Chapter 5: Little Soldiers, Perfect Aliens, and Spoilt Brats: Soviet and Post-Soviet Space Kids as Liminal Agents
Chapter 6: An Explosive Expansion: Soviet SF in the 1980s and Its Legacy
Chapter 7: The Province Called Earth: The Trope of Outer Space in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema
Chapter 8: Reinterpretations of the Soviet History of Spaceflight in Contemporary Russian Blockbusters
Conclusion: "If It Got Recorded, It Had To Be True." Replay, Rewatch, Remember?

About the author

By Natalija Majsova

Product details

• Authors: Natalija Majsova
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793609311
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-931-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Russia, HISTORY / World, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era