Russian aviation, space flight and visual culture / edited by Vlad Strukov and Helena Goscilo.
Among the many successes of the Soviet Union were inaugural space flight--ahead of the United States--and many other triumphs related to aviation. Aviators and cosmonauts enjoyed heroic status in the Soviet Union, and provided supports of the Soviet project with iconic figures which could be used to...
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
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2016.
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Eeurope series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Vlad Strukov & Helena Goscilo
- Art and Architecture. Ever Onwards, Ever Upwards: Representing the Aviation Hero in Soviet Art / Mike O'Mahony
- Deineka's Heavenly Bodies: Space, Sports, and the Sacred / Helena Goscilo
- Comic Cosmonaut: Space Exploration and Visual Satire in Krokodil in The Thaw / John Etty
- Flying City or Housing Freed from Gravity: Ideas of Space Travel and Internationalism in G.T. Krutikov's City of the Future / Aleksandra Idzior
- Neo-cosmism, Empire, and Contemporary Russian Art: Aleksei Belyaev-Gintovt / Maria Engström
- Film, Animation and Computer Games. Special / Spatial Effects in Soviet Cinema / Birgit Beumers
- Leaving the House of Dreams: The Myth of Flight in Russian Films of the 2000s / Julian Graffy
- Animal Aviators: Refashioning Soviet Myths in Contemporary Russian Digital Animation / Vlad Strukov
- Screening Aviation, Mediating Memory: Andrei Kavun's Kandahar / Anindita Banerjee
- Simulating Sturm und Drang: Theorizing Digital Historization, Commemoration, and Participation / Vlad Strukov.