A Russian Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Anna Toropova (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Nottingham), convened by Rachel Morley and Philip Cavendish (UCL SSEES).
Anna Toropova’s exploration of Stalinist cinema as a ‘laboratory’ of emotional revolution brings to light the medium’s vital role in cultivating the distinctive emotional values and norms of the Stalin era. Feeling Revolution shows how Soviet filmmakers were called on to help forge emotions and affects befitting the New Soviet Person, ranging from happiness and victorious laughter to hatred for enemies. This event took place on 10 May 2021.