{"product_id":"the-pedagogy-of-images-marina-balina-9781487506681","title":"The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of book for the first generation of young Soviet readers. In a sense, these early books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity; creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of politics through literature. Children's books provided the basic vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive modern events and communist practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelying on a process of dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, object of affection, and product of labour all in one, the illustrated book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in its form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpotlighting three thematic threads - communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda - \u003ci\u003eThe Pedagogy of Images\u003c\/i\u003e traces the formation of a mass-modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these early readers were meant to appropriate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marina Balina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487506686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487506681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 10.00w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022","brand":"Marina Balina","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994573996287,"sku":"9781487506681","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ac3e4f0-5f4b-43d9-a521-da06c6d14a1a.jpg?v=1683330959","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pedagogy-of-images-marina-balina-9781487506681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}