CFP: Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Russian Animation, 1917-2020.

Deadline:  January 20, 2021

The goal of this edited collection is to bring together the work of scholars working on Soviet and Russian animation from a transcultural or global perspective. We are interested in a variety of cross-cultural encounters between Soviet and Russian animators and their Western counterparts. Our timeline includes any Soviet cartoons produced between the October Revolution and the fall of the U.S.S.R. as well as their afterlives in the present.  Our aim is to show the complex ways that Soviet/Russian animation industry interacted with the West, broadly defined, and how this interaction changed after 1991.

Essays can explore the following topics:

·       The influence of Disney on Soviet and Russian animation;

·       International reception of specific Soviet or Russian cartoons in the West;

·       Russian and Soviet cartoons based on foreign literary texts;

·       Presence of foreign motifs or images in Russian or Soviet cartoons;

·       Soviet or Russian reliance on Western technologies in animation;

·       The role of specific animation directors as transcultural mediators or ambassadors between U.S.S.R. / Russia and the West;

·       Distribution and reception of Western cartoons in modern Russia.

please email to szamanbayeva@okcu.edu