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Когда деревни были большими: воображаемые пространства на советском экране. Рец. на кн.: Мазур Л. Н., Горбачев О. В. Советские фильмы о деревне: опыт исторической интерпретации художественного образа. М. : РОССПЭН, 2022. 349 с., ил.
The article presents an attempt to comprehend the Soviet village cinema as a mechanism of formation of imaginary space. The Soviet cinema is analyzed as one of the mechanisms of identity formation and attachment to place (Place attachment), based on Benedict Andreson's concept. Cinema becomes an important mechanism for transforming nature and territory into environment and space. Examining the monograph "Soviet Films about the Village: The Experience of Historical Interpretation of the Artistic Image," by Lyudmila Mazur and Oleg Gorbachev, the article marks the authors' innovative approach to understanding cinematography as a historical source, which allows to reconstruct a number of aspects of life in the Soviet village at different periods of its existence. The authors offer a critical reflection on the concepts of Lyudmila Mazur and Oleg Gorbachev, and offer an expanded comprehension of Soviet cinema on rural themes. In particular, the concept of the Urban gaze is offered, which is perceived as a disciplinary technique aimed at regulating the spatial hierarchy within Soviet society. The village became a cultural subaltern largely deprived of the right to speak. In the same way, an analysis of village cinema fits into the framework of a discussion about the possibilities of a postcolonial approach to Soviet history. On the one hand, Soviet films could reproduce stable stereotypes about various territories within the Soviet Union, but on the other hand, the existence of a decentralized film-making network allowed national republics to create visual images of their locus and broadcast them throughout the USSR. In this way the republican cinema became an important channel for the formation of both national identity and mass knowledge of the variability of Soviet space.