Filmmaking as Cultural Aggression
Filmmaking as Cultural Aggression
Author(s): Yuri ShevchukSubject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: cinematic depopulation; cultural imperialism; hybrid war; Ukrainian film; Russian film;
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses cinematic depopulation, the strategy of appropriation of the colonized by the colonizer widely used in the Soviet and post-Soviet cinema made in Ukraine and Russia and, until now, never analyzed in academic literature. The cinematic depopulation is a mode of filmic representation whereby a given ethnoscape (Ukraine) is cleansed of its national community (Ukrainians) and instead is populated by the colonizer (Russians) as if it were an integral part of his historical territory. As a form of cultural imperialism, this strategy has, until quite recently, been widely used in both Soviet and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian filmmaking to promote the idea of Ukraine conceivable outside of and without the Ukrainian language, culture, and other attributes of Ukrainian identity.
Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
- Issue Year: 34/2023
- Issue No: 43
- Page Range: 29-48
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English