Red Westerns in Soviet Film
RUSS-380L-01
Binghamton University
- Semester
- Summer 2025
- Instructor
- Samantha R Sharp (P)
- Start Date
- 07-07-0025
- Total Credits
- 4
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This course examines the genre of the Western as it manifests in films from the Soviet
Union and the Eastern Bloc. The title of the course invokes the concept of the “Red Western,” a mode of Soviet cinema which appropriates, parodies, and subverts the tropes of Hollywood Westerns, including the gun-slinging cowboy, the indigenous Other, and the coarse landscapes of the supposedly untamed frontier. The professed goal of the Red Western, produced in countries across Eastern Europe during the Cold War era, is usually a biting critique of American capitalism and imperialism, enacted weekly through the formal devices of the Western itself. Red Westerns make rich objects of analysis, posing questions about the possibilities and limits of particular forms and genres, while also illuminating social, political, economic tensions between the Soviet “East” and the American “West.”
Course Area: Language
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 07-07-0025 - 08-08-0025
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