The Application of Hermeneutical Analysis to Research on the Cold War in Soviet Animation Media Texts from the Second Half of the 1940s

Abstract

The Cold War era, which spawned a mutual ideological confrontation between communist and capitalist countries, left its mark on all categories of media texts, including cartoons and animations. Cartoons were used by the authorities as tools for delivering the necessary confrontational ideological content in an attractive folkloric, fairy-tale packaging in order to influence adults as well as children.

Notes

English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2015 “Mediaobrazovanie.” “Tekhnologiia germenevticheskogo analiza sovetskikh animatsionykh mediatekstov vtoroi poloviny 1940-kh godov na temu ‘kholodnoi voiny,’” Mediaobrazovanie, .2015, no. 1, pp. 102–12. Alexander Fedorov, doctor of pedagogical sciences, is a professor at the Anton Chekhov Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute. E-mail: [email protected] Translated by Kenneth Cargill. Translation reprinted from Russian Education and Society, vol. 57, no. 10. doi:10.1080/10609393.2016.1148951.