Ukrainian Animation on the Margins of the Empire

The Case of Davyd Cherkas’kyi’s Adventure Trilogy

Authors

  • Olga Blackledge University of Pittsburgh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2024.00018.367

Keywords:

Davyd Cherkas’kyi, Ukraine, Kyivnaukfilm, animation, adventure literature, postcolonialism, postmodernism, cultural appropriation

Abstract

Upon their release, the series Prikliucheniia kapitana Vrungelia / Pryhody kapitana Vrunhelia / The Adventures of Captain Wrongel (1976-1979, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), Doktor Aibolit / Likar Aibolyt’ / Dr Aibolit (1984-1985, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), and Ostrov sokrovishch / Ostriv skarbiv / Treasure Island (1986-1988, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) directed by Davyd Cherkas’kyi at the Ukrainian studio Kyivnaukfilm became instant Soviet animation classics. These three series were commissioned by the Creative Association “Ekran" for All-Union television broadcasting. They are adaptations of books about overseas adventures – a popular genre in the literature of colonial powers. Yet, by using multi-layered intermedial imagery, as well as fragmented narratives that change the mode of the literary works from romantic adventure to physical comedy, Cherkas’kyi creates a postmodernist hybrid site that invites multiple interpretations.

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Published

05-04-2024

How to Cite

Blackledge, Olga. 2024. “Ukrainian Animation on the Margins of the Empire: The Case of Davyd Cherkas’kyi’s Adventure Trilogy”. Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, no. 18 (April). https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2024.00018.367.

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