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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, P. Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-08T12:24:23Z
dc.date.available2024-03-08T12:24:23Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-05
dc.description.abstractNatasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov's Captain Volkonogov Escaped offers a gripping portrayal of life in Stalin's Soviet Union. This article discusses the film's evocation of an oppressive social structure and its pertinence as a stimulus and means to comprehending and critically appraising authoritarianism in contemporary times. The film pays close attention to micro-level dynamics of intimidation, fear and division, as well as their potential counters of empathy and resistance. It is this kind of social realism, eschewing the superficiality of conventional period ‘costume’ drama, that facilitates speaking truth to power. As such, it illustrates the potential of cinema, as one powerful form of cultural expression, to harness the historical imagination and illuminate the parallels between past and present calamities. It also suggests that resistance of violence and oppression depends on cultural engagement, and hence boycotts are counterproductive. These impede the capacity to build solidarity among the oppressed, both within and outside Russia. Forms of expression like film provide the means of mutual understanding on which such solidarity depends.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRobinson PS. The Politics of Film: 'Captain Volkonogov Escaped' and the Art of Resistance. Apparatus. Film, media and digital cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. 2023;16en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2193385
dc.identifier.doi10.17892/app.2023.00016.348
dc.identifier.issn2365-7758
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33141
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherApparatusen_US
dc.relation.journalApparatus. Film, media and digital cultures in Central and Eastern Europe
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleThe Politics of Film: 'Captain Volkonogov Escaped' and the Art of Resistanceen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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