"How it Was": Semiotic Approaches to Soviet References
"How it Was": Semiotic Approaches to Soviet References

Summary/Abstract: Using data from sots-art visual parodies, nostalgic discourses in rural Siberia, and Soviet bloc sketch comedy competitions, this article examines the ways in which historical images are reworked both in everyday interaction and global media contexts. This article first describes how Peircean semiotics concretizes the mechanisms linking personal experiences and public representations, then uses this lens to examine how two ways of transmitting information about the past - interpersonal and mass-mediated - differ in their implications for meaning making, resignification, and censorship.

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