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Issue 3 (44)

A. LITVINOV'S CHUKOTKA EXPEDITION. THE END OF THE SOVIET ETHNIC CINEMA
Year	2014	Number	3(44)
Pages	118-127	Type	scientific article
UDC	39(571.651)	BBK	63.589(2Рос-6Чук)
Authors	Golovnev Ivan A.	Topic	CINEMANTHROPOLOGICAL MOSAIC
Summary	The history of the ethnographic cinema in Russia is full of big names, heroic routes and classic films. The pioneers of the Russian ethnographic cinema were an explorer V. Arsenjev and a film director A. Litvinov — co-authors of a series of ethnographic films about the peoples of the Far East and Chukotka of the 1920s–1930s (“Forest People”, “Tumgu”, “Along the shores of Chukotka”, etc.). Alongside with addressing research and artistic goals production of ethnographic films was also part of a grand USSR's nation building experiment. The Soviet authorities used popular ethnographic films as a means of bringing together the peoples of the new Union on screen. However in time the demonstration of primitive peoples' way of life began to be perceived as detrimental to the success of the Soviet brand. In the mid 1930s, simultaneously with the repressions in the ethnological academic community, ethnographic films disappeared from the country's movie theaters, and the achievements of their makers discarded to archives.
Keywords	Soviet ethnographic cinema, Vladimir Arsenyev, Alexander Litvinov, Chukotka movie expedition
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