В моем проекте я рассматриваю кинотеатр Аврора как место памяти. Аврора является старейшим кинотеатром в Санкт Петербурге. Очень важно, что этот кинотеатр находится на Невском проспекте, центре комерческой и культурной жизни города. Я анализирую эволюцию роли кинотеатра в русской и советской культуре двадцатого века, в часности в жизни Ленинграда и Петербурга.
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Ashby Gaines (Russian Studies Program, College of William and Mary)
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Vladimir Lenin once said, ‘Of all the arts, the most important for us is Cinema’. While this claim can be debated, The Aurora Theater has proven that cinema is a highly coveted art form in St. Petersburg. The Aurora Theater opened its doors under the name The Piccadilly Theater in 1913 and since then has been the oldest continuously operating movie theater of St. Petersburg. Located on the bustling Nevsky Prospekt, the theater epitomizes the spirit of Petersburg’s main street. In the late Imperial capital, the Nevsky served as a display for the goods of the new market economy, the place where all the existing classes and cultures came together to consume its commodities (Berman 193). The motion picture was the unusual Western product that the newly opened theater offered to Petersburgers from all walks of life. Although Lenin saw cinema as a primary tool of propaganda, Petersburg moviegoers never were just silent objects of the official film culture. Rather, they kept on negotiating a complex dialogic relationship with films they watched and turned The Aurora Theater into the place where Petersburgers of all walks of life enjoyed modern film culture.