Russian Aviation, Space Flight and Visual Culture

Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor in Film and Digital Culture in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Helena Goscilo is Professor of Slavic at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US.

Introduction

PART I - Art and Architecture

1. Ever Onwards, Ever Upwards: Representing the Aviation Hero in Soviet Art

2. Deineka’s Heavenly Bodies: Space, Sports, and the Sacred

3. Comic Cosmonaut: Space Exploration and Visual Satire in Krokodil in The Thaw

4. Flying City or Housing Freed from Gravity: Ideas of Space Travel and Internationalism in G.T. Krutikov’s City of the Future

5. Neo-cosmism, Empire, and Contemporary Russian Art: Aleksei Belyaev- Gintovt

PART II - Film, Animation and Computer Games

6. Special / Spatial Effects in Soviet Cinema 7. Leaving the House of Dreams: The Myth of Flight in Russian Films of the 2000s

8. Animal Aviators: Refashioning Soviet Myths in Contemporary Russian Digital Animation

9. Screening Aviation, Mediating Memory: Andrei Kavun’s Kandahar

10. Simulating Sturm und Drang: Theorizing Digital Historization, Commemoration, and Participation