Vladimir Sappak’s humanism on Soviet TV
| dc.contributor.author | KHAZANOV, Pavel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-11T14:36:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-11T14:36:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In his writings, the first Soviet critic of television, Vladimir Sappak (1921-1961) associates the new mass medium with a political vision typical of Soviet intelligentsia in the Thaw era: the project of transcendence of Stalinism and its legacy. This project had to be pursued within the context of Soviet Party censorship, which made it difficult to articulate what post-Stalinism would entail. My paper analyzes Sappak’s understanding of television’s sincerity– a key attribute of the medium, according to his influential monograph, Television and Us (1963, published posthumously). I argue that Sappak’s TV sincerity in fact articulates an understanding of Soviet humanism, which, I claim, was a culturally important post-Stalinist mass ideology, whose boundaries and effects were negotiated in a contest between the Party state, the creative and scientific intelligentsia, and the urbanized, educated, TV-watching Soviet consumer masses. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1830-7728 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/56744 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
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| dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI MWP | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2018/04 | en |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
| dc.subject | USSR | en |
| dc.subject | Thaw | en |
| dc.subject | Sincerity | en |
| dc.subject | Intelligentsia | en |
| dc.subject | Destalinization | en |
| dc.title | Vladimir Sappak’s humanism on Soviet TV | en |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.identifier.other | 42485 | |
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