Open AccessPrivate Space in Soviet Cinema: Case Study of Riga
Author(s) -
Jānis Matvejs
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
rīgas tehniskās universitātes zinātniskie raksti. 10.sērija, arhitektūra un pilsētplānošana/arhitektūra un pilsētplānošana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2255-8764
pISSN - 1691-4333
DOI - 10.2478/aup-2018-0010
Subject(s) - movie theater , space (punctuation) , focus (optics) , private space , period (music) , political science , field (mathematics) , media studies , sociology , aesthetics , history , art , art history , physics , linguistics , optics , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The aim of this article is to discover the discourse of living spaces of Riga through the films of the Soviet period and to examine essential changes of private space in different residential structures. This study contributes to the field of human geography by conducting content analysis of a vast number of Soviet films with a focus on the development and spatial organization of apartments in Riga. The analysis of 264 films illustrates that living spaces are rarely portrayed in the Soviet cinema and they mostly provide intentionally formed idealistic information about the qualities and achievements of Soviet private space.