{"product_id":"lost-in-transition-memory-trauma-and-the-image-in-larisa-shepitkos-wings-1966-von-danny-wolpert","title":"Lost in Transition - Memory, Trauma and the Image in Larisa Shepitko's \"Wings\" [1966]","description":"\u003cp\u003eResearch Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1, University of Cambridge (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), language: English, abstract: The release of Shepitko's Wings in 1966 could not have come at a more culturally contested time in the Soviet Union. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfficial discomfort about the treatment of the war and the dissatisfaction with ordinary life depicted in the film could itself be said to be a reflection of the themes explored by Shepitko's drama. The certainty of wartime moral purpose and the high regard for a paternalistic authority in the form of Stalin were hard to separate in the minds of those who lived through the war. Equally, the post-war generation saw an awkward rigidity and naivety in the conservative instincts of their parents' generation.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShepitko's heroine is ill at ease in a society that regards complexity and ambiguity as progressive and liberating. In the sense that she is a woman out of place in the modern Soviet Union, it might be argued that Petrukhina represents an image of the failure of an authority figure whose generational heritage and self-definition had become classed as pejorative and was therefore unable to fit in with the Thaw period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640693023\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640693023","offer_id":39441383293021,"sku":"9783640693023","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/8ff06ddf-82b0-4cbf-8e65-7d362aecd114.jpg?v=1777694719","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/lost-in-transition-memory-trauma-and-the-image-in-larisa-shepitkos-wings-1966-von-danny-wolpert","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}