№2-2022-08
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2022-06-02-72-82
Kozyryanov A.V.
DEFENSE THEMES IN SOVIET FILMS AND ANIMATION OF THE 1930S.
The article deals with Soviet defense films of the 1930s as part of a general ideological trend. On the example of defense films, the author traces the importance of mobilization themes in Soviet propaganda in the second half of the 1930s. The role of defense themes in Soviet art of the 1930s is clearly traced. In the 1930s, in the Soviet Union, attempts were made to turn cinema into the main instrument of ideology and propaganda. Defense films emphasize the methods of Soviet propaganda. The author analyzes the quantitative indicators of produced films, in particular, the percentage of defense films in the total production of films in the 1930s. This article proves the paramount importance of the defense theme and agenda in the Soviet propaganda of the 1930s. In addition, the author considers historical films of the second half of the 1930s, as well as anti-fascist films of the same period, as films that perform defense functions. On the basis of the reviewed material, the author concludes that military and defense themes and moods dominated the Soviet ideology and propaganda of the period under study. Thus, all the most important ideological trends can be traced in cinematography. On the example of defense and historical films, key elements of Soviet ideology and propaganda of the 1930s are traced.
Keywords: history of Stalinism, Soviet ideology, propaganda and art, Soviet cinema, defense films, Soviet films, Soviet cinema of the 1930s, defense theme.
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University (Russia)
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