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DiaMatrix. Eclectic Glance on the Historiosophy of the Soviet Cinema of the 1930-1940s
Authors: Apostolov Andrey Igorevich , Apostolov Andrey Igorevich
Published: February 2020

Cinema transforms from the portrait of the
Stalinist epoch into its mirror reflecting everything in
reverse. Even the most ideologically censored film gives the
idea of the historic period none the less vivid than newsreel.
A Long Story about a Big Set for a Short Episode
Authors: Tolkachev Aleksandr Nikitovich , Tolkachov Alexander Nikitovich
Published: February 2020

The article is a recollection of a kind, one of the one or two dozen «Letters to the Students» written in the hope that the fragments of the 40-year experience will help a curious student realize the future difficulties and the versatility of the problems which a set designer has to solve almost every day.
In Anticipation of Esthetic Revolution: Western Fiction and Documentary Film of 1940-1945
Authors: Utilov Vladimir Aleksandrovich , Utilov VladimirAlexandrovich
Published: February 2020

The article reveals the processes in Western cinema during World War II and tells about the creation of educational and propaganda films which were made by famous directors for quite pragmatic purposes but in the end led to the appearance of new forms and new esthetics.
"War and Peace" and the 20th Century. The Russian Classic Novel's Screen Fate
Authors: Il'chenko Sergey Nikolaevich , Ilchenko Sergey Nikolayevich
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the history Leo Tolstoy's
epic's screen adaptations in the context of the 20th century cultural tendencies. Special emphasis is laid on the esthetic potential of television in terms of showing all the plot lines and the philosophy of the novel «War and Piece».
Some Aspects of Film Color Semantics and Cultural Tradition
Authors: Klopotovskaya Elena Arsen'evna , Klopotovskaya Yelena Arsenyevna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to an important topic: the semantics of color in films and its reflection in the costume. It also touches upon the problem of visual perception and forming different color systems. The problem of color is essential for contemporary Russian cinema. Digital technologies open widest opportunities in the field of film production, but the available rich color palette is used very poorly. It is worth reminding that color is one of the film's main expressive means and should be treated with proper attention.
Some Aspects of Semantics of Color in Film and Cultural Tradition (Conclusion. Beginning, # 3-4)
Authors: Klopotovskaya Yelena Arsenyevna
Published: February 2020

(Conclusion. For beginning see Issue #3-4)The article is devoted to an important topic: the semantics of color in ilms and its relection in the costume. It also touches upon the problem of visual perception and forming diferent color systems. Digital technologies open widest opportunities in the ield of ilm production, but the ofered rich color palette is used very poorly. It is worth reminding that color is one of ilm's main expressive means and should be treated with proper attention.
Bryan Forbes and Jack Clayton: Underestimated Spaces (British Cinema of the late 1950s-early 1960s)
Authors: Zakrevskaya : Andreevna , Zakrevskaya Anna Andreevna
Published: February 2020

The article covers a number of trends of the British cinema of the late 1950s-early 1960s and individual films made by the directors which have never been closely analyzed by Russian and sometimes by western film scholars. In contrast to the dominant tendencies of the time ("Angry young men"), the filmmakers in question did not deal with sharp social issues but concentrated on more "private" discoveries in the sphere of the plastic treatment of the film.
A. Zvyagintsev's «The Banishment» and the Tradition of Transcendental Cinema
Authors: Kljueva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article (for the beginning see Issue 6)
investigates the language system of the film «The Banishment»
in terms of the Transcendental Cinema. The main aim of
this work is to discover how the structure of the film and its
specific language manifest the Transcendental.
The Search for Visual
Authors: Yeliseyeva Yelena Alexeyevna
Published: February 2020

In the 1990-2000s there was an attempt to support making films for television. At that time television gave the filmmakers a chance to display their skills more often than feature film production. In fact, TV serials made it possible to preserve the traditions of the national approach to presenting historic material on the screen.
To the Semiotics of the Mirror and Reflectivity
Authors: Kljueva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

Objects vary in their ability to generate meanings. In this respect, mirrors are a unique phenomenon. The article covers some approaches to the problem of the mirror and reflectivity existing in modern science.
The Parable in the Work of World Film Masters
Authors: Tugushi Soso Akakiyevich
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the parable as a movie genre, its origins and reasons why many 20th century film directors from different national schools have turned to it. The author also gives the philosophic and aesthetical basis of this genre and its role in the evolution of cinematic thought.
The Commercial Value of an Audiovisual Product. A Film as a Commodity Item
Authors: Melesse Yelena Vladimirovna
Published: February 2020

The article considers an audiovisual product in terms of its commercial functioning within the conceptual framework of Economics and investigates its market value as an object of trade.
Basic Aspects of the Development of Systematic Repetition in Fine Art
Authors: Burov Andrey Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article explores the main stages of the emergence of phrasism, a systematic esthetic repetition through a grating pattern. The author differentiates between the repetition in visual art (visual phrase) and post-visual art (post-visual phrase) and analyses the evolution of both
Professional and Non-Professional Actors as Cultural Agents in the films of Renita and Yuriy Grigoryev
Authors: Pishita Yevgeniy Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the problem of casting professional and non-professional actors as bearers of culture. It also analyses the methods of directing non professionals, of plunging them into the material and creating spiritual links between the performers. The Grigoryevs’ experience of adapting “The Karamazoff Brothers” by F. Dostoyevsky and V. Shukshin’s prose is considered
Liberty as a Cultural Value
Authors: Mezhuyev Vadim Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

What is liberty, does a modern human being consider this category an exceptional value - these are vital philosophic problems dating back to most ancient times. How does a free person think? What is his way of life? How does the awareness of one’s freedom influence a creative individual and what role does culture play in all this? And, finally, what do we mean by the term “eternal values”? The author tries to find the answers to all these questions
Alfred Schnittke and the End of Russian Classic Music
Authors: Mikheyeva Yulia Vsevolodovna
Published: February 2020

The article surveys the ideological and cultural situation in Russian music in the 1970s. It was the period when the most important traits of Alfred Schnittke’s work became apparent, which marked his transition from the images and themes of the Russian “Grand Style” to more complicated sound structures of modern music. Having inherited the intellectual and ethical traditions from Shostakovich, Schnittke brought to music a new perception of reality including a different understanding of a person’s state of mind. Thus, Schnittke’s film scores did not only reflect the shift of modern artistic paradigms, but became a form of philosophic self-consciousness in the context of post-modernist global changes. Schnittke’s music opened the stage of “indirect statement” in film music, which enriched and transformed the meaning of the screen image
Cable and Satellite: “Non-Fiction” Content
Authors: Belenkiy Yuri Mikhaylovich
Published: February 2020

The article surveys the results of the third edition of the “Great Digit”, a national award for the achievements in the sphere of cable and satellite broadcasting, which enables us to analyze the trends of their development. Despite the considerable increase in the number of new digital channels their limited budgets lead to the absence of fiction content on commercial television. This fact affects both the competition in the commercial TV segment and their opposition to ground broadcasting setting promising prospects for developing “niche” television.
Mirror and its Semiotic Modifications in Culture
Authors: Kljueva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article pursues the semiotic potential of the “mirror” concept, its numerous modifications and its significance for culture. The article encompasses a wide spectrum of issues, namely: mirror as an instrument of culture, mirror as a cognition means, mirror as a description of the alien structure (the phenomenon of duplicity of the world), mirror and the dream psychology, mirror as a cinema pattern, mirror functions in the film structure etc.
On the character transformation in the Russian Cinema
Authors: Sharapova Marina Alexandrovna
Published: February 2020

The article content includes the analysis of the peculiarities of the creation of the heroic character image in the Russian screenwriting. The author compares the emblematic soviet film “The Communist” by Yu. Raizman and the post-soviet film “The Edge” by A. Uchitel attaching special attention to the close interaction of the protagonist with the social medium.
Moral Aspects of Russian PreRevolutionary Cinema. Yakov Protazanov
Authors: Rostotskaya Marianna Albertovna
Published: February 2020

The article is a continuation of the topic raised in the previous issue (#10, 2011). The cinema of Yakov Protazanov, spectacular, public-oriented and answering the requirements of the ideological demands, was also deeply connected with moral traditions of the Russian culture. Protazanov’s cinema spanned a wide terrain ranging from the problems of the moral choice and the nature of evil to the conflict of light and dark.
Philosophic Foundations of an Audiovisual Counterpoint in a Film
Authors: Mikheeva Yulia Vsevolodovna
Published: February 2020

The article investigates counterpoint as a philosophic and aesthetical opposition of the film’s sound and visual aspects. The author analyses the philosophic grounds of counterpoint as the contrast of images and an intellectual paradox and of metacounterpoint as the filmmaker’s attitude to the text as a whole.
Cliplike Montage and Illusory World
Authors: Utilova Natalia Ivanovna
Published: February 2020

The present publication is a fragment of a survey devoted to the emergence and development of the music video montage which enhances the sense perception of screen images plunging the spectator into the world of illusion. The search for the origins of this montage form are of not only academic interest, but reveal certain practical possibilities of using music video montage in various audiovisual genres outside TV.
Classic and Hellenistic Greece
Authors: Pondopulo Gleb Konstantinovich
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the role of the classic heritage in the formation of the culture of the Early Modern Period. Opening the series of articles «On the Crossroads of European Culture», the present publication investigates the influence made by the Classic Greek cultural archetype and Hellenistic tradition on the formation of modern philosophy of culture. Their impact was ambivalent because of the fact that the archetype (Logos) was based on reason and the interest for the logical constructing of cosmic models while the cultural tradition was grounded on the interest of studying nature as the basis of universal and human existence and the search for the best way to a happy life independent of the will of gods. And that gave an anthropological shade to the whole culturological process.
«Terra Incognita» Cinema
Authors: Zvegintseva Irina Anatolyaevna
Published: February 2020

The article treats of New Zealand film history that due to a number of reasons remains little known for a wide audience.
Television Civilization and Image of Reality
Authors: Utilova Natalia Ivanovna
Published: February 2020

The article considers television up-to-date tendencies in the age of globalization. The emergence of digital technologies not only changes the process of TV multi-genre production making but has an impact on the whole of audiovisual culture and trustworthiness of the mirrored reality.
Television: Process and Phenomenon
Authors: Shumakov Sergei Leonidovich
Published: February 2020

The article considers the basic trends of modern Russian television and its links with the global processes of media communications. Special place is given to the form and genre structure of TV programs with singling out their dialogic character and television basic link with the present-day audience’s peculiarities of screen arts perception.
The Non-Selection Virus. A. Zvyagintsev’s «Elena» in Terms of Identity Theory
Authors: Kluyeva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the artistic peculiarities of A. Zvyagintsev’s new film «Elena» which stands apart from all his preceding work. In a sense, the film demonstrates the director’s rejection of the previously found pattern associated with Zvyagintsev’s style. The author analyses the director’s specific manner reflecting his aesthetic principles. The analysis is done from two points of view: the philosophy of the film (the anthropological aspect) and in terms of the identity. Special attention is given to the audience’s projective perception in the film’s structure.
Historic and Cultural Background of the «Belye Stolby» Festival of Archive Films
Authors: Malyshev Vladimir Sergeyevich
Published: February 2020

The article reveals the history of creating the «Belye Stolby» Festival of Archive Films and analyses the historic and cultural conditions of the emergence of one of the most respectful events in archive cinema.
The Paradoxes of the Thaw Period
Authors: Zaitseva Lydia Alexeyevna
Published: February 2020

The so called Thaw Period which got its name thanks to Ilya Ehrenburg, holds a specific place in the history of Russian culture. It is characterized by complex contradictory tendencies viewed by the author using the film «Ilyich Gate» (dir. M. Khutsiev, sc. G. Shpalikov) as an example.
A Hero and His Mask in Strip Cartoons
Authors: Tsyrkun Nina Alexandrovna
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the dialectics of the relationship between the character of the film based on comic strips and his mask as an essential attribute of the genre, the characters of which are mainly reduced to external evidence. Since comic strips have nowadays become the multicultural phenomenon, it is viable to analyze the matter on the example of the three films by directors from different countries. These are typical examples of the main types of the forenamed dialectics. Each of them therefore fits well in its peculiar way into the modern social-psychological and social-political context, indicating the applicability of the genre.
Phenomenon of the System Repetition in Photography as an Alternative to Film
Authors: Burov Andrey Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article highlights certain artistic and esthetical aspects of the systematic change in the art of the first half of the 20th century. Based on specific factors, the author discovers a num ber of basic criteria for the artistic, esthetical and structural evaluation of post-visual phrases (relevant for both post-visual phrase of the first half of the 20th century and that one of the second half of the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21st century).
Ideas of the Philosophical Ideallogism and Kieslowski’s “Pyramid”
Authors: Mikheeva Yulia Vsevolodovna
Published: February 2020

The author analyzes the spontaneous demonstration of the ideas of philosophical dialogism in the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. She investigates the evolution of the creative thinking of the director depicting the state of feelings of the present-day people. The deep insight into the individual’s intricate spiritual quest leads Kieslowski of the late period to the conclusions consonant with the philosophical ideas of Post-Christianity.
The Peculiarities of Financial Management of Cinema Houses
Authors: Ogurchikov Pavel Konstantinovich , Pichugin Eduard Anatoljevich
Published: February 2020

The proceeds of the cinema-houses depend on various factors, i.a. the distribution structure of box-office takings. The goal of the money flows management thus takes on enormous significance, demanding a system approach and a thorough consideration of the peculiarities of cinema facilities. The article highlights the peculiarities of the finance resources of cinema-houses, the classifications of the factors affecting the amount of money flows. This classification allows to timely work out and exercise the optimization measures of money flows management, which in the final analysis will help to improve the conditions of the cinema-houses.
European Film Avant-Garde: phenomenological interpretation of reality
Authors: Lyubovich Maksim Vyacheslavovich
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the historical and cultural genesis of the photogenes phenomenon. The author sees the roots of photogenes not only in the phenomenological philosophy, but also in Berkeley’s perception theory, in the philosophy of the mythos and primeval animism. Having originated in the twenties photogenes proves to be an isolated incident of a particular world perception manifested throughout centuries in various spheres of human activities. The author describes it as a phenomenological interpretation of reality.
Peculiarities of flash Animation
Authors: Trapeznikova Yelena Vladimirovna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the development of Russian network-based flash-animation and the main trends in organizing its artistic space. The author examines the work of three web artists: A. Bakhurin, N. Belov and O. Pashenko, represented on the site www.koms.ru analyzing its philosophic, artistic and technological aspects. Conceptual web flash animation is considered as one of the ways of the animation evolution in the new environment with its technological potential stressing its dominant tendencies and defining its main directions.
Does cinema remain the driving force of screen culture?
Authors: Kirillova Natalia Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article explores the evolution of screen (audiovisual, electronic) culture as a specific type of the information era culture. Its specific nature lies in the fact that it is closely connected with the development of IT technologies being a ‘product’ of the new “virtual” reality. Special emphasis is laid on the place of the cinema within the context of the new art forms in cyberspace and its prospects.
The Role of the Information Space in the Culture of the Young Generation
Authors: Malyshev Anton Vladimirovich
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the role of information space in the forming of young generation culture and analyses its structure and problem field.
Algeria: Birth of Cinema
Authors: Shakhov Anatoliy Sergeyevich
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the origin of Algerian cinema which has long been neglected by Russian researchers. Using Arab-language sources the author shows that the national film industry emerged in the context of the revolutionary situation of 1954-1962 and tells about the European filmmakers who contributed to its formation and development.
M.Night Shyamalan’s Ups and Downs
Authors: Zvegintseva Irina Anatolyevna
Published: February 2020

A short essay on the career of the Indianborn American-based filmmaker-screenwriter-producer-actor
Regional Aspects of the State Policy in Culture and Art
Authors: Molchanov Igor Nikolaevich , Molchanova Nataliya Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The article emphasizes the subfederal problems of development in the domain of culture and art, investigates the promising forms of concept-based and policy documents, various sources of investing in the regional cinematic institutions. The authors analyze the advantages of the new managerial and legal form of non-commercial institutions — an autonomous foundation recommended as the most suitable one for putting cultural events into practice.
Film Distribution and Exhibition in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (1896-1907)
Authors: Kosinova Marina Ivanovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the so called “French Period” in the Russian cinema of the late 1800s and early 1900s and analyses the process of forming the national institute of distributors and theatre owners. It also pays attention to the problems of repertoire policy and promotion and accounts for the success of Russian pre-revolutionary cinema.
“Phasing” and Artistic Repetition in Eisenstein’s Theory and Practice
Authors: Burov Andrey Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the artistic phenomenon of repetition through Sergei Eisenstein’s silent films. Special emphasis is laid on the analysis in terms of repetition in Eisenstein’s theoretical writings.
The Images of China on Russian Screen. A Glance from the Audience
Authors: Andreyev Andrey Leonidovich , Andreyev Ivan Andreyevich
Published: February 2020

The festival of Chinese cinema held last September in Moscow motivated the authors to make a sociological analysis of certain tendencies in modern Chinese cinema connected with the forming of the image of China as a super power. The article explores the intercommunication of the cultures in cinematic form.
Soviet Film Expeditions of the 1930's through the Eyes of Greater Tokyo Inhabitants
Authors: Fyodorova Anastasia Aleksandrovna
Published: February 2020

The early 1930's were a turning point in the history of Japan and its cinema. The transition to the sound film, the rapid development of documentary genre and use of it for propaganda purposes took place in the context of the filmmakers' interest to the experience of Soviet cinema, its highly expressive editing, documentary style and ideological partiality. The sound documentary «Greater Tokyo» (1932) by V. Shneiderov was created in these years. The film has been forgotten for a long time due to various reasons. The author tries to return the film into the historical context of the early 1930's and analyze the perception of Soviet documentaries in the pre-war Japan.
Musical Minimalism in the Movies: the Metamorphoses of Time and the Emergence of Sound
Authors: Mikheeva Yulia Vsevolodovna
Published: February 2020

The article (the ending; for the beginning see Issue # 17) analyses the role of musical minimalism in the aesthetic perception and theoretical interpretation of a film. This analysis is based on two phenomena: the transcendizing of the artistic space via the inherent value of an isolated sound and the change in the sense of time through the repetitiveness of musical techniques.
On the Approaches to the Formation of the Artistic Time Theory: M.M. Bakhtin, G. Deleuze
Authors: Marievskaya Natalia Yevgenyevna
Published: February 2020

The article surveys the experience of borrowing the concept of “Chrono-tope” from Relativistic Mechanics, defines the boundaries of chronotopic analysis in lit erature and cinema studies and suggests the possible ways of eliminating the difficulties in the chronotope theories of H. Bergson and G. Deleuze.
Hoffmann’s Dual World in “Hoffmaniada”
Authors: Trapeznikova Yelena Vladimirovna
Published: February 2020

The article focuses on the artistic space of the first two parts of Stanislav Sokolov’s project “Hoffmaniada” as compared to that of Hoffmann’s tales, accentuating the expressive means that make it possible to construct Hoffmann’s dual world in animation.
Visualization of advertising media text on TV channels’ websites: creative technologies
Authors: Lobodenko Lidia Kamilovna
Published: February 2020

The article examines the processes of transition to multimedia broadcasting platforms in the Internet introducing creative technology of advertising media text visualization to a new level. Present-day creative technologies provide non-standard use of verbal and nonverbal communication tools driving the audience to advertising media copies. The problem of studying creative technologies of advertising media copy visualization for channel websites is actually underexplored. Nevertheless a new trend in advertising visualization of ad units and messages in the Internet demands of manufacturers pooled knowledge of the advertising product displayed. Thus conventional terrestrial channels acquire both a new business assignment and additional financial support. The article provides theoretical justification of basic concepts, that is "creativity", "creative idea" and "creative technology." Basic elements dominating in development of visualized advertising are distinguished as the guidelines for creative technologies of advertising media text visualization on channel websites, including an exclusive style and advertising image formation technology. Media content of websites of 6 federal (national) TV channels included in the 1st and 2nd multiplexes of interactive digital television in Russia is specially scrutinized as a potent fact. Multimedia broadcasting platforms are shaped in the new informative and communicative environment conditioned by rapidly progressing innovative technologies, which renders to creative technologies of advertising media text visualization both dynamics of transformations and additional advertising product properties: multimediacity, interactivity, onlinity and hypertextuality.
Absurd KING SIZE
Authors: Mankovskaya N B
Published: February 2020

Абсурд KING SIZE. О монографии М.Г. Анищенко Драма абсурда. - М.: ГИТИС, 2011. - 312 с.
I am - caricaturist
Authors: Maslennikov I F
Published: February 2020

I am - caricaturist
On representation and typology of the demoniac and monstrous characters
Authors: Krivulya Natalya Gennadyevna
Published: February 2020

Currently discourse of the monstrous and demonological has been intensified. These phenomena are gaining new understanding due to the processes occurring in the post-secularitanian society undergoing a succession of critical shocks. The interest in the demonic and monstrous as the manifestation of the desire tends to form a new point of view on the anthropology and man's place in the new reference frame. The judgments about the demonic and monstrous allowed creating representation of the correct, normative, standard, and normal. Hereafter the definition of the demonic and monstrous characters is presented as well as differentiation between the concepts of the demonic and monstrous is drawn through analysis of etymology of the words "demon" and "monster" and their connotations in different languages. Particular attention is drawn to the changes in the concepts of demonological and monstrous in cultural traditions and historical perspective on the basis of analysis of the ancient Greek literature, pre-Christian mythological and biblical texts, philosophical treatises and works by Plato, Thales, Socrates, Hesiod, Homer, Aristotle, Cicero, Pliny, Ctesias of Cnidus, St. Augustine, Vl. Solovyov, Av. Fr. Pott, A.F. Losev, G. Umberto Eco, Derrida, Sl. Zizek. The analysis revealed the differences in relation to the monstrous and demonic. If the idea of the demonic has evolved from the divine to the sinister, and has completely lost the binary of the semantic opposition up to now, the monstrous continues to show the duality of its nature. As a result the monstrosity is associated with limitary existence between the normal and abnormal, possible and admissible, esthetic and ugly, ethical and immoral, represented and unimaginable. If the demonic is the manifestation of the supernatural and demonstration of the Other, the monstrous as exiting outside the scope of the ordinary and habitual, represents the image of the Other. Both the supernatural of the demonic and the marginality of the monstrous ground concatenation, furnishing the images with the phantasmic. If the demonic appears as the distortion of the divine, the monstrous is the distortion of the human. The hybridous or synthetic character of the forms and qualities is the feature common to both the demoniac and monstrous images.
Mir Mamoru Osii: illyuziya ili real'nost'?
Authors: Terakopyan Maria Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

Мамору Осии (р. 1951) известен в первую очередь как автор анимэ, в которых поднимает сложные философские проблемы. В своих минималистских работах он рисует гнетущую безотрадную картину нашего будущего, которое представляется как мрачная антиутопия. Основное внимание режиссер уделяет зрительному ряду, за которым следует история, и лишь последнее место отводится персонажам. Осии работает в различных сферах - анимация, инсталляции, игровые полнометражные картины, короткометражки. Наиболее известные его работы Призрак в доспехах и Авалон.
Superhero Cinema Comics: Gender Transposition
Authors: Tsyrkun Nina Aleksandrovna
Published: February 2020

The article treats symbolic exchange of gender roles in modern American cinema comics. The author comes to the conclusion that the narrative functions force female characters to act under a male algorithm while their visual representation brings to a classic "patriarchal" discourse, which testifies to superhero cinema comics' conservatism, characteristic of its genre basis.
Methodology of Factoring's Implementation in Leasing's Scheme
Authors: Zakharova Elena Yuryevna , Krivolutsky Yury Vasilyevich
Published: February 2020

The article substantiates the necessity of modern financial instruments' implementation under the financing of the leasing of film equipment. The methodological structure of this process' economic assessment under the factoring's implementation in the leasing scheme is shown. Schematic models and economic efficiency's assessment of factoring's application are also given.
Television Impact on Children's Development: Experience of Positive Modeling
Authors: Makhovskaya Olga Ivanovna , Marchenko Fyodor Olegovich
Published: February 2020

The history of television impact's psychological studies shows that it affects not only on views but also on the whole child's personality development. Researchers and producers look for positive effects' modeling on children's development. The article demonstrates how to form socially significant views and initial skills of solidarity in children at the age of 4 - 6 using children's television series "Sesame Street in Russia". Experience of scientifically proven modeling of directives and concepts in preschool children can be used in the production of specialized children's channels.
Screenplay as a Dynamic Process Model
Authors: Marievskaya Natalia Yevgenyevna
Published: February 2020

The article problematizes the applicability of the concept formation, developed by the nonlinear dynamics' theory, to the field of study of a narrative text. Cinema work is considered as a dynamic process model. It is shown that every narrative text implements nonlinear dynamics as it comprises a point of explosion.
Screen Version of «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» as an Example of Literary Work's Visualization
Authors: Yermilova Nonna Borisovna
Published: February 2020

Complexities of literary work's transferring on the screen are discussed in the article as exemplified by Roald Dahl's fairy tale's two screen versions: "Willy Wonka the Chocolate Factory" (1971, directed by Mel Stuart) and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005, directed by Tim Burton). The article is published to the 50th anniversary of Roald Dahl's fairy tale's release.
Planning Element as a Narrative Method in Moulding of Audiovisual Imagery in Documentaries
Authors: Koneva Maria Nikolayevna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the artistic relevance of sound design as one of the most significant elements of film, specifically, in documentary. The author explores the phenomenon emerging at the interface of various genres and tendencies in film art focusing mainly on the auteurs conception realized through such notions as sound scale, depth and prominence of soundy.
Points of Disequilibrium in Narrative Dynamics and Their Structure
Authors: Marievskaya Natalia Yevgenyevna
Published: February 2020

The article explores the dynamics of the narrative film. The author reveals points of disequilibrium in the plot, the place and importance of stimulating incident in it and determines its structure. The concepts of the nonlinear dynamics theory and dramaturgy theory are compared in the article. It is determined that dramatic situations correlate with I. Prigozhin's ideas: the probability, irreversibility and possibility of new connections. The structure of the film climax is also analyzed. The comparison of classical and non-classical story arcs is provided.
State Guardianship of Cinema: The Issue of Goal-Setting
Authors: Zhabsky Mikhail Ivanovich
Published: February 2020

The article examines the goals of state guardianship of Russian cinema taking into account the interaction among the states objective interests and cinematic openness of the country, the globalization of filmmaking process and segmentation of audience by the 'consumer loyalty' criterion. The targets, classified as optimal, are considered in their correlation with the states cinema legislation currently in force. The concepts of competitiveness and social significance of national cinema are interpreted generally and properly.
Impressionism as an Expression of Social Consciousness
Authors: Kharitonova Natalia Stepanovna
Published: February 2020

The article is an attempt to comprehend the emergence and establishing of the Impressionism, to understand the reasons of the reappraisal of artistic values gradually taking place in public consciousness and answer the question how the social demand for a new artistic value was formed. The birth of the Impressionism as a cultural phenomenon resulted from an artists interpretation of objective reality, his relations with the society, nature, science, philosophy, religion. The Impressionism was one of the brightest events in the European culture of the mid-1800s which made a great impact on the subsequent development of art becoming the key moment in the transition of the 19th century art to the main artistic trends of the 20th century.
TV- Show: From the Audience Habits To Principles of Dramaturgy
Authors: Kemarskaya Irina Nikolaevna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the scriptwriting of TV shows and the role of the social practices of TV-viewing in the creation of script plot of periodical programs. Script construction of contemporary TV shows differs greatly from the classical film screenwriting due to its primarily focusing on predicted audience reactions in every single moment of broadcasting. The show creators are directed by the intention of giving the viewer the opportunities to feel the emotions he/she anticipates watching every new issue of the program. In order to attract the audience to the screen, hold it, to ensure its return to the favorite show the TV creators are obliged to imagine the established rituals and social practices of screen viewing. The paper covers the historical aspects of the social TV viewing practices, their formation and dynamics, from the Soviet "collective viewing" in a communal apartments with a sole TV-set up to a contemporary tendency of individual binge-watching of full ser seasons through internet services. The author specially emphasizes gender, generational, socio-demographic differences in TV watching and their influence on different creative techniques and discoveries. As to the gender habits of audiovisual information perception, the author pays attention to the so called "female" way of TV watching, characteristic of empathy, emotional involvement in the perception of the show, against the "male" choice of action, spectacle dynamics and often simultaneous viewing of different channels. Changes in common practices of TV watching cause the script decisions, adapted to the habitual behavior of different audience groups (shortening of audiovisual elements within programs, clip cutting, priority of emotion over logic-screen narration, etc.). Resume: rapid changes of screen watching social practices challenge the well-known creative technologies, turning the familiar TV shows into the part of the hypertext with different logic of reading and understanding.
Character’s Imagery in Russian Animation of 1990s
Authors: Prikhod’ko Violetta Victorovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the characters imagery evolution in Russian animation from 1992 to 1998. The imagery transformations are connected with sociocultural changes. This makes investigation of characters imagery evolution under transition from Soviet to Russian animation highly interesting. The chosen screen stuff is justified by the filmss genre and duration. The animations are classified according to the target audiencs age, production technology, the studio, where the film was created. These aspects influence on the characters imagery is explained on the basis not only of practical observation, but also of cinema theoreticians and practisers works. Such properties as the type of a character, ones gender, age, function in the plot are analyzed. Five concepts of characters type classification are introduced: a human, an anthropomorph, a zoomorph, an objectified and fantasy character. These characteristics are described theoretically and examplified by the animation films considered. Such concepts as the gender role, characters age and ones function in the plot are also illustrated with the examples from the animation films. The dynamics of characters transformations in these criteria, the ratio of character types in different years have been researched. The paper shows, how the character transforms in accordance with the type, how the dominating gender identity changes. The main trends in the dynamics of characters changes are singled out. The main relations between different features of this periods films hero, for example, between the production technology and the characters type, or between the target audiences age and the protagonists function in the plot, are drawn out . The author defines the dominated type of a character at certain studios, working most actively in the period in question, and for Russian animation environment in general. The general conclusion about the most accepted characters type of the period is drawn.
The Art of Opera: Variability of Artistic Languages of Screen Forms
Authors: Mesyanzhinova Alexandra Vadimovna
Published: February 2020

Specifics of an artistic language of screen forms of opera and its variations (movies, TV performances, live broadcasts in movie theatres) could be explicated successfully using a case study of different interpretations of the same work. The article retrospectively illustrates variability of an artistic language of the operatic screen forms using a case study of screen adaptations of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata (1853). The article analyzes a film-opera by Franco Zeffirelli (1982), a film-opera by Mario Lanfranchi (1968), TV-broadcast of Adrian Marthalers staging of La Traviata at Zurich Central station (2008), and the live broadcast in movie theaters of Willy Deckers production at the Metropolitan Opera (2012). The author presumes that the format of an opera-film through interacting with the audience primarily on emotional and symbolic levels appears as static. TV live broadcasts of opera productions, which have replaced filmed opera, convey the completeness and stasis of what is happening on screen thus allowing the viewer to feel the spontaneity of theatrical action and actually ushering the spectator into the space of each frame. Live broadcasts of opera performances in movie theatres create a unique symbiosis of arts: a live, devoid of stasis and predetermination, feature film emerges. Nowadays, when theatres are increasingly offering live broadcasts of their performances in Internet, it is possible to state that the operatic art is not just oriented towards the screen arts but is searching new opportunities to adapt itself to the screen format, and can no longer exist independently off the screen. All this affects the artistic language of screen and theatrical forms of the operatic art. Although the operatic art interacts well with the multimedia technologies, the issues of interpretation and transformation of the artistic forms, which arise when recordings of elapsed performances are converted to digital format and viewed on modern devices, require a very delicate approach. Tablet computers and other media devices, which are able to reproduce nearly every recording, in a certain sense, allow customization of the technical and aesthetic forms of an art piece according to the users preferences, thus introducing personalized artistic accents of a viewer.
Split Screen as a Method of Film Editing
Authors: Shabalin Vladimir Vasilyevich
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the visual integration of permanent data flows in the television frame as exemplified by the split screen as a new method of creating actuality programs. The author shows the artistic aspect of the objects interplay in the 2D and poly-angle frame.
Escaping Aesthetics, or What Film Theory Should Do?
Authors: Tsyrkun N A
Published: February 2020

Escaping Aesthetics, or What Film Theory Should Do?
“Deus ex Machina” as a Method of Constructing a Happy End in Film Art
Authors: Shevtsov Vasily Anatolievich
Published: February 2020

The article deals with a special type of a happy ending when the final well-being is a kind of a surprise or godsend that is obtained through no effort of the protagonist. This type of ending deviates from the logic of the classical film narrative and is closer to the dramaturgical technique deus ex machina. It is shown that the use of this technique looks justified if one of the characters of the movie is an anthropomorphic representative of some higher power.
The Effect of Media Culture on Modern Art: Photography, Hyperrealism, Video Art
Authors: Stroeva Olesya Vitalyevna
Published: February 2020

The article analyzes the problem of changing a perception of visual arts, as well as the transformation of art functioning mechanism emerged under the influence of media sphere evolution. The author treats the most popular genres of contemporary art: photography, hyperrealism and video art, analyzes a new type of media thinking, based on collective perception.
Pirjo Honkasalo’s World of Thoughts and Symbols in Russia: Sample of Statistical Analysis
Authors: Ivannikova Kristina Olegovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with creation of Pirjo Honkasalo (b. 1947), one of the most talented and interesting filmmakers in contemporary Finnish cinema. Her films have gained certain recognition in Europe but are hardly known among Russian viewers - despite the fact that the subjects of a number of her documentaries are directly related to Russia. Pirjo Honkasalo is internationally known as the author of poetic documentaries marked with profound philosophical and religious issues. It was Honkasalos documentary Three rooms melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta, 2004), that lent eclat to her. The director debuted as an independent filmmaker with the low-budget picture Mysterion (Mysterion, 1991), and further on brightly developed her personal manner of cinematography and cutting. To better understand the method of her direction some passages from her recent interview with the Russian journalist M. Kuvshinova are included, where Honkasalo tells of her opinion on difference between documentary and feature helmer work. Special attention is paid to the feature films by Honkasalo focusing on the problems of a dysfunctional family (single mother with two children negligent). It is important to note that though Fire-eater (Tulennielija, 1998) and Concrete Night (Betoniyo, 2013) were filmed with an interval of 15 years, the similarity between them is traced both in a storyline, as well as in an aesthetic approach. Having considered creation of Pirjo Honkasalo, the author assumes, that the director, staying within genre of drama, richly varies her manner, presenting multifaceted experience in different directions, marked with a dialogue with the audience held in the language of ideas and symbols.
Screen Communications As a Form of Socialization and Individualization
Authors: Urazova Svetlana Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

Common exposure to various kinds of mobile and stationary devices based on screen technologies produce substantiation for the term screen communications. The relevancy of its usage is specified, also the principles of functioning in context of updating social practices and multimedia informational space are substantiated in the article. The issue is due to the fact that the term screen communications has not yet been put into academic usage, unlike such terms as communication, mass communication and social communication. Nevertheless contemporary social practices for using the screen (cell phone, e-book, tablet, etc.) have turned into a daily routine and even demonstrate screen-phobia. The evolution of the technologies, new media (multimedia, multi-platforms), growth of information flows, form and content diversity of informational products, socialization effect and accumulation of empirical experience urge society to resort to the screen for receiving information (film-, video-, TV-production, Internet sites, social networks, computers, cell phones, tablets, e-books, electronic billboards, videoinformational systems, etc.). The article analyzes characteristics of well-known communications forms and types when superimposed to the term screen communications. The problem raised a need for thorough analysis of screen communications which different strata of society master; moreover, a great significance of studying peculiarities of screen culture in the digital era is emphasized. The article cites information about the emergence of Generation C, formed by social networks (a lecture on Nielsen Consumer 360 Conference). The Connected Collective Consumer has a distinguished identity and is ready for self-expression (ideas, cultural projects, etc.) within the group. As a conclusion it substantiates the nonlinearity of the social systems development, including social networks which are exposed to both the socialization effect and diversification and disintegration processes, which leads to a communication connections collapse.