22-23.10.2020
“The Images of American and Soviet Enemies in the USSR and U.S. Cold War Films”. PDF
St Petersburg, 22-23 October, 2020
Organised by
- Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia;
- Russian Science Foundation project, grant No 18-18-02233 ‘The Cinematic Images of Soviet and American Enemies in the Cold War Symbolic Politics: Comparative Analysis’.
Conference Programme Committee: | Conference Organising Committee: |
Oleg Riabov (St Petersburg University) – Chair | Alexander Kubyshkin (St Petersburg University) – Chair |
Irina Novikova (University of Latvia) | Olga Davydova (St Petersburg University) – Deputy Chair |
Nina Sputnitskaya (VGIK) | Sergei Belov (Moscow State University) |
Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire) | Liudmila Kleshchenko (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) |
Denise Youngblood (University of Vermont) | Marina Kulikova (St Petersburg University) |
Victoria Zhuravleva (Russian State University for the Humanities) | Tatiana Riabova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) |
Dmitry Smirnov (Ivanovo State University) | |
Kirill Yudin (Ivanovo State University) | |
Panel schedules (Moscow time)
22 October
Registration of participants – 13:00 – 13:45
Opening of the conference – 13:45 – 14:00
Panel 1. ENEMY IMAGES IN THE COLD WAR FILMS: HISTORICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PREMISES 14:00 – 15:25
Break 15:25 – 15:35
Panel 2. SOVIET CINEMA OF THE 1940s AND EARLY 1950s 15:35 – 17:25
Break 17:25-17:45
Panel 3. THE CINEMA OF THE SOVIET THAW 17:45 – 19:10
Break 19:10 – 19:25
Panel 4. SOVIET CINEMA OF THE 1970s-1980s 19:25 – 20:50
23 October
Registration of participants – 12:00 – 12:30
Panel 5. FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE PRESENT 12.30 – 13.55 | Panel 6. ENEMIES AND SOUNDS 12.30 – 13.55 |
Break 13.55 – 14.05
Panel 7. AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE 1940s-1970s 14.05 – 15.55 | Panel 8. FILM IMAGES OF THE SOVIET AND AMERICAN ENEMIES: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 14.05 – 15.55 |
Break 15.55 – 16.20
Keynote lecture 16:20 – 17:35
Break 17:35 – 17:45
Panel 9. THE ENEMY IN SOVIET AND AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE 17:45 – 19:10
Break 19:10 – 19:20
Panel 10. RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER IN CONSTRUCTING FILM ENEMY IMAGES 19:20 – 20:55
Final discussion 20:55 – 21:20
22 October
Registration of participants 13:00 – 14:00, the White Hall
Opening of the conference 13:45 –14:00, Pavlovsky Hall
Sokolov, Roman – Head of the Institute of History and Social Sciences, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Riabov, Oleg – Programme Committee Chair
Kubyshkin, Alexander – Organising Committee Chair
Panel 1. ENEMY IMAGES IN THE COLD WAR FILMS: HISTORICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PREMISES
14:00 – 15:25, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Nina Sputnitskaya
Sokolov, Roman. From Inner to External Enemy: History of Making ‘Alexander Nevsky’ by Sergei Eisenstein (in Russian)
Volkov, Evgeniy. The Soviet Union in the U.S. World War II Feature Films (in Russian)
Kubyshkin, Alexander. Ideology of Confrontation and the Sources of the Cold War in the U.S. Cinema (in Russian)
15:00 — Discussion
15:25 –15:35 — Break
Panel 2. SOVIET CINEMA OF THE 1940s AND EARLY 1950s
15:35 – 17:25, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator — Raphaëlle Auclert
Dobrenko, Evgeny. Transformation of a German into an American: Conversion and Utilisation of the Aesthetic Toolkit in the Stalin’s Period of Cold War (in Russian)
Baraban, Elena. From Friend to Foe: Images of American and British Allies in Soviet War Films of the Stalin Era
Gudkov, Maksim. Konstantin Simonov ‘American Question’ (in Russian)
Dolgova, Evgeniya. Professor Losev’s Everyday Life: ‘Spy Mania’ in the Soviet Postwar Cinema (in Russian)
16:55 – Discussion
17:25 – 17:45 – Break
Panel 3. THE THAW CIMEMA
17:45 – 19:15, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator — Evgeniy Volkov
Feigelson, Kristian. Soviet Post-War Fiction: Between History and Memory?
Auclert, Raphaëlle. The Dangerous Charm of the Enemy: Cultural War in the Thaw Cinema (in Russian)
Stepanov, Boris. ‘To Live with Men’: ‘Enemies of the People’ in the Thaw Cinema (in Russian)
18:45 – Discussion
19:15 –19:30 – Break
Panel 4. SOVIET CINEMA OF THE 1970s-1980s
19:30 – 20:55, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Irina Novikova
Akopov, Sergei (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg) American ‘Spies’ and ‘Writers’ as ‘Enemies’ and ‘Friends’: Soviet Ontological Security in Cold War Films by Julian Semenov
Levchenko, Yan. ‘Close Netherworld’: Abroad in the Soviet Television Series of the ‘Late Stagnation’ (in Russian)
20:30 – Discussion
23 October
Registration of participants 12:00 – 12:30, the White Hall
Panel 5. FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE PRESENT
12:30 – 13:55, Mariinsky Hall
Moderator – Sergei Belov
Smirnov, Dmitry. Semiotic Dynamics of the Enemy Images in the USSR and U.S. Cold War Cinema (in Russian)
Sidorov, Viktor. The Practices of Symbolic Domination in Mass Media (in Russian)
Perova, Ekaterina. The Image of the World Enemy in the U.S. Cinema (in Russian)
13:30 – Discussion
13:55 –14:05 – Break
Panel 6. ENEMIES AND SOUNDS
12:30 –13:55, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Olga Davydova
Manulkina, Olga. Not to Know Your Enemy: U.S. Music and the Musical Images of Americans in the Soviet Films of the Late 1940s – 1950s (in Russian)
Yudin, Kirill. Music as a Resource of Representing the Image of Other in the U.S. Cold War Cinema (in Russian)
Kulikova, Marina. ‘The Voice of the Enemy’: Linguistic Means of Constructing the Images of the Soviet Enemy in the U.S. Cinema (in Russian)
13:30 – Discussion
13:55 –14:05 – Break
Panel 7. AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE 1940s-1970s
14:05 – 15:55, Mariinsky Hall
Moderator – Victoria Zhuravleva
Kaziuchits, Maksim. ‘Conformist’ and ‘Non-Conformist’ Discourses in U.S. Cold War Documentaries (in Russian)
Belova, Anna. The U.S. Cinematic Images of the Soviet Enemy in the Period of Détente (in Russian)
Riabov, Dmitriy. The ‘Red Menace’ in the Hollywood’s Politics of American Identity During the Early Cold War
LoSasso, Michael. They Fought for Mother Russia: The Twentieth Century & World War II’s Eastern Front on Early American Television
15:25 – Discussion
15:55 –16:20 – Break
Panel 8. FILM IMAGES OF THE SOVIET AND AMERICAN ENEMIES: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
14:05 – 15:55, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Ivan Kurilla
Riabova, Tatiana. Representations of Space as a Resource of Constructing ‘Enemy Number One’ in the USSR and U.S. Cinema (in Russian)
Sputnitskaya, Nina. The Enemy’s Image in Animation in 1955-1965: Nukes, Space and Little Man (in Russian)
Kleshchenko, Liudmila. Representations of Cuba in Creating the Images of Soviet and American Enemies in the U.S. and USSR Cinema (in Russian)
Davydova, Olga. The USSR and USA Non-fictional Cinema: Two Regimes of Documentaries (A Case of Spy Films) (in Russian)
15:25 – Discussion
15:55 –16:20 – Break
KEYNOTE LECTURE
16:20 –17:35, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Alexander Kubyshkin
Shaw, Tony. How Hollywood Sees the Cold War Today: Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies
17:35 – 17:45 – Break
Panel 9. THE ENEMY IN SOVIET AND AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE
17:45 – 19:10, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Oleg Riabov
Zhuravleva, Victoria. The Soviet / American Other in the Cold War Political Cartoons and Posters (in Russian)
Tsykalov, Dmitry. Dehumanisation as a Means of Creating the Enemy Image in the U.S. and USSR Cold War Culture (in Russian)
Danilevskiy, Alexander. On One Aspect of the ‘American Theme’ in Lev Samoylov’s Caricatures: ‘Ours’ as ‘Alien’ / American and ‘Alien’ as ‘Ours’ (in Russian)
18:45 – Discussion
19:10 – 19:20 – Break
Panel 10. RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER IN CONSTRUCTING FILM ENEMY IMAGES
19:20 – 20:55, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Novikova, Irina. America, Race and ‘Blackness’ in John Howard Griffin’s ‘Black Like Me’ and Its Soviet Adaptation
Belov, Sergei. Pre-revolutionary Russia’s Antisemitism in the Hollywood’s Mirror as a Resource of Constructing the Anti-image of the USSR (in Russian)
Riabov, Oleg. ‘Real Man’ as an Invective? American Hypermasculinity in the Soviet Cold War Cinema (in Russian)
20:20 – Discussion
Final discussion – 20:55 – 21:20, Pavlovsky Hall
Moderator – Alexander Kubyshkin
PARTICIPANTS
Akopov Sergei – Higher School of Economics (St Petersburg), Doctor of Sciences (Politics), Professor
Auclert Raphaëlle – Catholic University of the Vendée, PhD, Lecturer
Baraban Elena – University of Manitoba (Winnipeg), PhD, Associate Professor
Belov Sergey – Lomonosov Moscow State University, PhD, Associate Professor
Belova Anna – Tver State University / Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), PhD, Department Chair / Leading Research Associate
Danilevskiy Aleksandr – Tallinn University, PhD, Research Associate
Davydova Olga – St Petersburg University, PhD, Senior Lecturer
Dobrenko Evgeny – University of Sheffield, PhD, Professor
Dolgova Evgeniya – Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow), PhD, Senior Research Associate
Feigelson Kristian – Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris), Dr Hab., Professor
Gudkov Maksim – St Petersburg University, Senior Lecturer
Kaziuchits Maksim – Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov – VGIK / State Central Film Museum (Moscow), PhD, Chief Specialist / Senior Research Associate
Kleshchenko Liudmila – Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St Petersburg), PhD, Senior Lecturer
Kubyshkin Alexander – St Petersburg University, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor
Kulikova Marina – St Petersburg University, PhD, Associate Professor
Kurilla Ivan – European University at St Petersburg, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor
Levchenko Yan – Higher School of Economics (Moscow), PhD, Professor
Losasso Michael – University of South Florida, PhD, PhD Candidate/Graduate Assistant
Magnúsdóttir Rósa – Aarhus University, PhD, Associate Professor
Manulkina Olga – St Petersburg University, PhD, Associate Professor
Nоvikova Irina – University of Latvia, PhD, Professor
Perova Ekaterina – Moscow State Linguistic University, PhD, Associate Professor
Riabov Dmitriy – Higher School of Economics (St Petersburg), PhD, Lecturer
Riabov Oleg – St Petersburg University, Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Leading Research Associate
Riabova Tatiana – Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St Petersburg), Doctor of Sciences (Sociology), Professor
Shaw Tony – University of Hertfordshire, PhD, Professor
Sidorov Viktor – St Petersburg University, Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor
Smirnov Dmitry – Ivanovo State University, Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Department Chair
Sokolov Roman — Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St Petersburg), Doctor of Sciences (History), Head of the Institute of History and Social Sciences
Sputnitskaya Nina – Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov – VGIK (Moscow), PhD, Leading Specialist
Stepanov Boris – Higher School of Economics (Moscow), PhD, Leading Research Associate
Tsykalov Dmitry – Centre for Advanced Technologies of Education (Moscow), PhD, Teacher of History and Social Sciences
Volkov Evgeniy – South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk), Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor
Youngblood Denise J. – University of Vermont, PhD, Professor of History emerita
Yudin Kirill – Ivanovo State University, PhD, Associate Professor
Zhuravleva Victoria – Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow), Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor
Contact information – Riabov Oleg, riabov1@inbox.ru