PROFESSOR LOSEV'S EVERYDAY LIFE: ESPIONAGE IN SOVIET POST-WAR CINEMA
Keywords:
cinema, academics, daily, spy, cosmopolitan, ethos of scienceAbstract
The article aims to study the plot of espionage in Soviet films about the life of Soviet scientists in the late 1940s-early 1950s. The Cinema of this time is attentive to the figure of a scientist: the films are dedicated to heroic biographies or scientific everyday life, they reflected the status of science in society. The author analyzes the mythology of films, reconstructs the authorities ' ideas about the ideal type of relationship between the scientist and the state. It is concluded that the role of the scientist in the cinema of those years is specific – on the one hand, his image often acquired the features of a moral maxim, on the other-was in the focus of espionage. The close intertwining of the spy motif, the negation of "admiration for the West" and cosmopolitanism - specific feature of the cinema of those years, as reflected in specific historical events – for example, the defamatory company against Nikolay N. Luzin, post-war case "КR". The audio-visual sources were analyzed with the method of step-by-step structured observation.Downloads
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2023-05-16
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История России