The Pedagogy of Images : Depicting Communism for Children.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (569 pages)
- Studies in Book and Print Culture Series .
- Studies in Book and Print Culture Series .
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- introduction Primers in Soviet Modernity: Depicting Communism for Children in Early Soviet Russia -- PART I: MEDIATION -- chapter one Three Degrees of Exemplary Boyhood in Boris Kustodiev's Soviet Paradise -- chapter two How the Revolution Triumphed: Alisa Poret's Textbook of Cultural Iconography -- chapter three "Foto-glaz": Children as Photo-Correspondents in Early Soviet Pioneer Magazines -- chapter four Autonomous Animals Animated: Samozveri as a Constructivist Pedagogical Cine-dispositive -- chapter five The Fragile Power of Paper and Projections -- PART II: TECHNOLOGY -- chapter six From Nature to "Second Nature" and Back -- chapter seven Autonomy and the Automaton: The Child as Instrument of Futurity -- chapter eight Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power -- chapter nine "Do It All Yourself!" Teaching Technological Creativity during Soviet Industrialization -- chapter ten The Camel and the Caboose: Viktor Shklovsky's Turksib and the Pedagogy of Uneven Development -- chapter eleven Aeroplane, Aeroboat, Aerosleigh: Propelling Everywhere in Soviet Transportation -- PART III: POWER -- chapter twelve Spatializing Revolutionary Temporality: From Montage and Dynamism to Map and Plan -- chapter thirteen "Poor, Poor Il'ich": Visualizing Lenin's Death for Children -- chapter fourteen Young Soldiers at Play: The Red Army Soldier as Icon -- chapter fifteen The Working Body and Its Prostheses: Imagining Class for Soviet Children -- chapter sixteen Amerikanizm: The Brave New New World of Soviet Civilization -- Illustration Credits -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Series Page.
This collection offers a variety of scholarly views on illustrated books for Soviet children, covering everything from artistic innovation to state propaganda.
9781487534653
Communism in literature. Education-Political aspects-Soviet Union. Literacy-Political aspects-Soviet Union.