Constructing and Deconstructing the Images of Soviet and American Enemies in Cinematic Cold War

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Cinema was one of the main theatres of the ‘cultural Cold War’. Star actors, directors, screenwriters on both sides of the Iron Curtain took an active part in constructing the images of the American and Soviet enemies. The study of cinematic Cold War images of the enemy seems even more relevant because they continue to influence the mutual perception of Russia and the United States.
In forming cinematic images of the enemy, various discourses are employed, among them political, civilisational, national, moral, aesthetic, historical, anthropological, gender and sports ones; they have been intensively studied. The goal of the panel is to contribute to this field, in particular, using the method of linguistic analysis, analyzing Soviet fairytales and fantasies, and examining representations of the Nazi as a base for creating the image of the Cold War enemy.
Besides that, the panel focuses on the question - how cinema helped to deconstruct the Cold War enemy image in 1960s.

Sub Unit

• Cinema/Television/Electronic Media

Chair

• Yulia Frolova, Herzen State Pedagogical U (Russia)

Papers

• Cold War Fairytale and Fantasy Films and Representations of the Soviet Colonialist Ambitions: The Beginning - Nina Sputnitskaia, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (Russia)

• How did the Cold War Enemy Sound?: Linguistic Means of Constructing the Cinematic Images of American and Soviet Enemies - Marina Kulikova, St Petersburg State U (Russia)

• Deconstructing the Image of the Enemy?: Cinematic Representations of Americans in the Soviet Thaw - Oleg V. Riabov, Herzen State Pedagogical U (Russia)

• Representations of the Enemy in the Sergei Gerasimov’s Cinema and the Cold War - Maksim Kazyuchits, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (Russia)

Discussant

• Liudmila Leonidovna Kleshchenko, Herzen State Pedagogical U (Russia)

Session Manager

• Yulia Frolova, Herzen State Pedagogical U (Russia)