DOI:
10.18413/2408-932X-2016-2-4-27-39
«THROUGH THE MAGIC CRYSTAL»: CARICATURE AND CARICATURIZATION OF REALITY IN THE SOVIET CENTRAL PRESS IN THE 1920S (ON THE EXAMPLE OF "PRAVDA")
In this article, the phenomenon of Soviet caricature of the 1920s is viewed from several positions. First, as a message (journalistic texts) with the utmost intellectual simplification and emotional intensity. Second, in close relationship with the Soviet journalism message as a whole. With this approach both the content (superficial) links of Soviet caricatures with other newspaper materials and the underlying general simplifying intellectual and emotional messages (world vision) become certain and due, enabling to consider the publication of the central Soviet press as a single text. However, caricature as a genre most vividly demonstrated the general tendency of the Soviet journalism of the 1920s in caricaturicaturization of reality. It was a simple “brick” in a huge building of a powerful caricatural apologetic message (supergenre), which was divided into two metagenres – Fame and Reproach.
In our opinion, caricaturization (simplification) imposed upon the reader (viewer) some archaic ideas about the world. In fact, it formed the Soviet human being as a hybrid one: apparently belonging to the modern era, but in its fundamental socio-civic concepts – a human being belonging to the pre-Enlightenment era. We consider this situation as extremely dangerous for the national public consciousness. The consequences of the victory of the caricature resulted, for example, in the inability of adequate assessment of both some political phenomena, and the international and domestic situation in general.
Keywords: Soviet journalism,
Soviet caricature,
caricaturization of the world,
totalitarianism,
fascism.
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