| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of this study is to investigate the representations of live images of Soviet cosmonauts of the early sixties, a period which saw the beginning of the “Soviet Cosmovision” propaganda.
During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union broadcasted a series of exciting television images via transnational networks. Of these media events, the most spectacular were undoubtedly the human spaceflight missions. Whereas the U.S. used mostly still images and photographs of American astronauts, the Soviet Union represented their cosmonauts chiefly through live image broadcasts from space. By comparison, the Soviet Union had begun actively propagating live images of cosmonauts in space as early as 1962, and these images were delivered to viewers across the world. This so-called Soviet “Cosmovision” propaganda campaign successfully demonstrated that the Space Race constituted a new form of state-sponsored entertainment.
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