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Trains or Planes: Viewing the Territory Trains or Planes: Viewing the Territory
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Looking Out: The Train Explores Looking Out: The Train Explores
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Looking Down: The Plane Conquers Looking Down: The Plane Conquers
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Chancing Trains: The Tourist Gaze of the 1930s Chancing Trains: The Tourist Gaze of the 1930s
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Abstract
This chapter explains that cinema made a twofold role in shaping the imaginary geography of the Soviet Union. First, cinema embodied the territory, and second, it offered ways of looking at Soviet territory. The chapter also states that changes in attitudes toward territory can be examined through an analysis of two models of vision presented in Soviet cinema of the period: the train and the plane. Soviet rail served as a symbol that drove the hierarchy of the former imperial Russia and as a means to overcome the divide between town and country, center and periphery. Planes and aerial shots in Soviet films symbolized the discovery and the conquest of all territorial space.
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