The Northernness in the Film Documents: “Our Great North” (1925)
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2023-22-7-160-172
Abstract
Visual anthropological materials, in particular, documentary films, played a significant role in forming the perception of in the 20th century. In the 1920s in the USSR, the North was one of the main locations of the shooting of ethno-geographic films. Created in the region, they literally became the discovery of this territory for the capitals and the central regions population. Based on the analysis of archival materials, periodicals and newsreel data, the article introduces into scientific circulation information about the film “Our Great North” by L. K Verigo-Dorovsky. The method of analysis of the film was its research interpretation –presentation in the form of a film text. The author demonstrates potential of a film document as a tool for recording and broadcasting the ethno-cultural and economic potential of the region as a multi-layered historical source.
About the Author
I. A. Golovnev
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ivan A. Golovnev, Doctor of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher
Scopus Author ID 57192830550
WoS Researcher ID AAC-8728-2019
RSCI Author ID 699963
St. Petersburg
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Golovnev I.A. The Northernness in the Film Documents: “Our Great North” (1925). Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology. 2023;22(7):160-172. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2023-22-7-160-172
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