Circus Imagination in the Soviet Cinema of the 70s

Student: Orlova Aleksandra

Educational Programme: Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In this paper, the author studies the use of circus images in Soviet cinema in the 1970s. The hypothesis of the study is that the Soviet cinema of the 1970s addresses circus as one of the most allegoric spectacular arts with the aim of influencing the viewer through cinematic codes and supporting ideological work with him (the viewer). The analysis of the two films was carried out: "Circus lights the lights" (1972) and "Carnival" (1972). Each of these films uses circus and its images are a metaphor to the political struggle of the USSR culture and the "bourgeois" culture of the West. The topicality of paper is related to the interest of researchers in use of ideology in cinema and continuing interest in the studies of a circus as a performative practice and spectacular art.

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