AN IMPERFECT TOTALITY: SOME NOTES ON SPACIAL COMPOSITES AND FILM PROPAGANDA Cover Image

NETOBULAS TOTALUMAS: KELIOS PASTABOS APIE ERDVINIUS KOMPOZITUS IR KINO PROPAGANDĄ
AN IMPERFECT TOTALITY: SOME NOTES ON SPACIAL COMPOSITES AND FILM PROPAGANDA

Author(s): Natalija Arlauskaitė
Subject(s): Cultural history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla & VU Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų institutas

Summary/Abstract: The article asks how coherent a narrative ideology really is and how total is the control of narrative in film propaganda developed for the Baltic States in the immediate aftermath of WWII. In 1947, three films for the newly occupied Baltic countries were produced by Lenfilm and Mosfilm in cooperation with the local studios: Marytė (directed by Vera Stroyeva) for Lithuania, Life in a Citadel (Elu tsitadellis, directed by Herbert Rappaport) for Estonia and Homeward with Victory (Mājup ar uzvaru, directed by Aleksandr Ivanov) for Latvia. These films served as an introduction of the Soviet visual regime to the new territories and trained new citizens to learn its political optics.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2 (90)
  • Page Range: 65-87
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Lithuanian