Open AccessIDEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN SOVIET ANIMATION CINEMA
Author(s) -
Koray Sevindi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
turkish online journal of design, art and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2146-5193
DOI - 10.7456/11102100/017
Subject(s) - ideology , movie theater , critical discourse analysis , sociology , politics , hegemony , identity (music) , aesthetics , media studies , political science , literature , law , art
In this study, the Soviet animation cinema's ideological discourses, which showed the consequences and reflections of the political ideology of the era, were examined. In line with the findings, it was considered that these animated films constitute a kind of cultural memory that exhibits the political history and social culture of the Soviets. The article's ideological discourse analysis method was applied by considering Teun A. van Dijk's study titled Ideological Discourse Analysis. As part of this research, because ideological discourses were analyzed, only short films with propaganda content were regarded among Soviet animations, and the scope of the study was restricted. Furthermore, the date range taken about the films was the term of Soyuzmultfilm, the official animation studio of the Soviet Union. The films created by the studio, which began its actions in 1936 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, were taken into account. The conclusions of discourse analysis were evaluated according to the headings 'self-identity', 'activity', 'goal', 'norm and value', 'position and relation' and 'resource' mentioned in the article Ideological Discourse Analysis, and the ideological discourses in Soviet animated cinema were analyzed.