IDEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN THE CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD
IDEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN THE CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates the process of becoming of the ideologization of cinematic art in the period between the two World Wars. The author traces the emergence of new ways of translating political concepts into cinema, their golden age and disappearance. Based on a wide range of archival, audio and video visual sources, memoirs and reference books, an attempt is made to outline the evolution of technological methods of control and manipulation of public consciousness. The geographical representativeness of the study covers Soviet, European, and American cinema, a description of dramaturgic methods is given, which are used to create a “frame structure” of the political consciousness of citizens and such fundamental categories of it as “common historical memory”, “homeland”, “national dream” and “national perspective”. In the study, the author concludes that the cinema of the interwar period gradually acquires the features of systemic political communication between the state and society and, thanks to the multi-channel nature of individual perception, becomes the main tool for the formation of national identity. The actualization of the study of the claimed topic lies in the field of studying the patterns of appearance, principles and target settings of modern technologies of mass culture, public relations, marketing, etc.

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