Soviet architecture in film

[Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU]

Hi Stephanie,

Jack Kollmann's message (The double-headed eagles were removed from the main
towers in 1935; red glass stars were put in their place in 1937) it seems is
not of much help. However I have a problem with the way you are trying to
'read'/see the film. It is possible that for you (Stephanie) ie an informed
reader/viewer they work as a symbol or ""signposts" that Stalin is now in
charge (along with the red Soviet banners, the exuberant radio announcer,
etc., but for others it may be altogether different. The question is in fact
how, through what processes, a viewer negotiates the meaning of the viewed
'text'. I am not sure if Nikita Mikhalkov was using them as signposts. I
can't be sure. No one can be sure. Filmic texts like all other texts
construct their meaning through a process of negotiation between what is
intended and what is 'seen'. There can occur lots of slippages in the
process. Perhaps one way is to do a point of view analysis of the filmic
text, that is establish the interaction between subjective and objective
shots (most shots lie somewhere in the middle) and then see if one can
'validate' your 'seeing' them as "signposts".

Good luck

Subhash



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