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ENG This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. RUS XX . 30 - , , , .

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ENG Natalija Majsova is an associate professor of cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana. Her research cuts across the fields of memory studies, film and media studies, heritage interpretation, and (post-)socialist popular cultures. She is especially interested in the mechanisms of collective memory and remembrance practices at the nexus of projections of the future and imaginaries of the past, and in how gradual technological transformations contribute to nostalgias for past utopias. She has authored two books, including Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures(Lexington Books, 2021), co-edited the volume Faith in a Beam of Light: Magic Lantern and Belief in Western Europe, 1860-1940 (Brepols, 2022) with Sabine Lenk, and is main co-editor of the journal Social Science Forum. RUS - . , memory studies, , . , , .

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