The Ideological Topic in the Magazine Soviet Screen: 1957–1968 (Western Cinema Aspect)

Based on a content analysis (in the context of historical, sociocultural and political situation, etc.) of texts published during the Thaw in the Soviet Screen magazine (1957)(1958)(1959)(1960)(1961)(1962)(1963)(1964)(1965)(1966)(1967)(1968), the authors concluded that an important role in this publication was played by ideologized articles that emphasized criticism of bourgeois cinema and its detrimental influence on the audience, Not all of the magazine's authors directly sought to publish ideologically oriented articles, but it is possible to identify a small but consistently engaged group of film scholars and critics who consistently opposed the negative effects of bourgeois (and in particular Western) cinema on their audiences and defended Marxist-Leninist approaches to the analysis of the film process.After the Prague Spring events, however, the authorities decided that the journal's ideological position was not sufficiently counter-propagandistic, and a harsh campaign was unleashed against Soviet Screen in Ogonyok, which always maintained a political mainstream position at the time.In the end, the editorial board of Soviet Screen managed to persuade the "higher authorities" that the ideological course of the journal would be changed in the direction desired by the power, and (unlike the editorial board of Cinema Art, which was similarly criticized in 1968), editor-inchief D. Pisarevsky managed to keep his position.Thus, the level of ideologization of Soviet Screen materials was elevated and in a number of articles was no different from Soviet Communist Party publications.