Emma Widdis: 2 books

Book cover of Socialist Senses

Socialist Senses

Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940

by Emma Widdis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

In a major reimagining of the history and cultural impact of Soviet film, noted film scholar Emma Widdis explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a "sensory...
Book cover of Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War
by Emma Widdis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable" space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territory of the Soviet Union. This book shows how Soviet...
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