Аннотация:AbstractHow might Soviet cinema—as. medium, rather than as a true image of the real world—constitute. sexual desire? This speculative question encounters formidable foundational barriers; both the mimetic requirements of socialist realism as such and the fraught topic of sexual desire militate against constructing an answer. Taking Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes are Flying as the basis of its discussion, the research explores where we might look in Soviet cinema to find sexual desire not as image—governed. by conventional norms of representational accuracy—but. instead coded more cautiously as a practice of medium specificity—violating., as it were, one set of codes while preserving the decorum of another.
