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VGIK celebrates its 100th anniversary. Visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan
Authors: - Editorial
Published: February 2020

Anniversary celebrations in honor of the 100th anniversary of the All-Russian State Institute of cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK), one of the leading film schools in the world, began. Officially, the date of the celebration falls on September 1, 2019, but preparations for the landmark anniversary are in full swing. The Republic of Kazakhstan became the first among foreign honors of the famous film school, where "Days of VGIK" organized by the Minister of culture and sports of Kazakhstan were held in Astana and Almaty
The Influence of Traditions of Culture on the Techniques of Sound Directing in Japanese Cinema. Speech and Pause
Authors: Rusinova Elena A , Khabchuk Elizaveta M
Published: February 2020

The article (the end of the publication, beginning: No 1 (35), 2018) analyzes the sound features of Japanese motion pictures created in the second half of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries, on the example of the speech expressiveness of screen actors. The peculiarity of the acting game for a long time was one of the obstacles to understanding and accepting Japanese films by the Western audience. The approach of Japanese film actors to taking roles was based on traditions of the theatrical performance. However, theatrical techniques organically entered the artistic structure and became distinctive features of the genre of dzidaigaki (costume-historical film), especially loved by the audience. The main vehicle in the sound design of such films was the actor's speech using an ancient language, differing from modern Japanese by the presence of additional endings and pronouns. The mode of stylization of speech, associated with a special attention to detail, brings the audience closer to the time displayed on screen, adding realism in the perception of the screen event. The article presents stylistic, phonetic, semantic features of actor's speech in Japanese films not only in costume and historical genre, but also in fantasy and animation films. In the latter two genres, the onomatopoeia (sound imaging) plays an important role in creating the sound design of the film, which is so common in Japanese colloquial and written speech that can also be attributed to a peculiar Japanese cultural tradition. Analysis of sound designs of the Japanese films, including the use of onomatopoeia, is the novelty of the work presented. The articles topicality is that analyzing another view of the world can broaden the horizon of seeing a specific creative task that is not even related to the Japanese theme, while opening up new creative opportunities. In addition, the material of the article in some extent fills a gap in Russian cinema studies, related to the theme of sound in Japanese cinema.
BIBLIOTEKA VGIK
Authors: Edition -
Published: February 2020

New books submitted to the VGIK Library are presented
Small Screen and Great Ambitions: Australian Television Series in the Cultural Context of the Country
Authors: Zvegintseva Irina А
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the success of Australian TV series in many countries including Russia. Today, these are professionally made audiovisual works with well-constructed stories, talented casts and magnificent direction. ttey show the life of Australian society, revealing social problems and the reasons of the Green Continents prosperity, make one want to take a closer look at this country.
Film Viewing of the Russians on TV Channels: Sociological Analysis
Authors: Sharikov Alexander V
Published: February 2020

In the context of increasing digitalization of media-space, the analysis of broadcasting films on Russian leading TV channels is of intense interest. The article examines the specific character of movie broadcasting in general and the films preferred by Russian TV audience. The analysis is based on the viewing grids of 22 Russian channels in the July of 2018 taking into account the main data of film repertoire on TV and the preferences of the audience in accordance with the age categories.
VGIK. Raznoobrazie graney mezhdunarodnogo sotrudnichestva
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Published: February 2020

In a series of events in the creative life of VGIK it is worth highlighting two the 10th International summer film school of VGIK in Krasnodar, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the University, and-screenings of Iranian films in the framework of "Days of culture of Iran in Russia" in the walls of VGIK. These events reveal the facets of international cooperation of the University, testify to its organizational and creative potential, limitless humanistic possibilities inherent in the film and screen arts.
BIBLIOTEKA VGIK
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Published: February 2020

Representation of books of VGIK Library--
The Philosophy of Art, Aesthetics and Art History as Scientific Disciplines
Authors: Nikitina Irina P
Published: February 2020

The article defines the specificity of aesthetics, philosophy of art and cultural studies. It describes and analyses both the difference between these disciplines and similarity due to the common subject of research. The author argues that the level of academic activity of philosophy and aesthetics is higher than that of cultural studies as the latter is less free of value judgments and therefore more subjective.
The Influence of Frank Wedekind’s Work on the German Cinema of the Early XX Century
Authors: Smagina Svetlana A
Published: February 2020

Lulu, the heroine of Frank Wedekinds plays, becomes the neurological point in the German cinema of the 1920s marking the shift of moral references in the society connected with the re-evaluation of gender roles. Lulu embodies the conception of a new woman based on sexual equality as the foundation of the renovation of the society and harmonization of the world that emerges at the turn of the XX century. Through the comparative study of the literary source material and the film Die Bchse der Pandora (Pandoras Box) directed by G.W. Pabst, the author examines the cinematic representation of this image.
Visual Picture of the World in the Reflection of Modern Media
Authors: Utilova Natalya I
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the problems of reflecting the worlds visual picture in modern media, the techniques of revealing multiple meanings through visual codes and corporality, the methods of affecting the audiences sense perception as exemplified by television. The author makes a comparative study of the concepts screen truth and facts of life in film and video content. The analysis of these issues allows the author to take a new look at the process of searching the expressiveness of screen culture including off-screen media content and art projects.
“VGIK DAYS”: FOREIGN ROUTES
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Published: February 2020

The international ties of VGIK with universities and national schools of different countries are developing rapidly. Confirmation is the 38th VGIK International Student Film Festival, which was successfully completed in Moscow, or the Student Oscar, as the Russian press calls it. In anticipation of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the celebrated Russian university and the 120th anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein, the festival was attended by future cinematographers from 38 film schools from 36 countries presented 43 films for the competition program. Another proof is the holding of VGIK Days, which took place at the end of 2018 in the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Uzbekistan, Italy, and Romania. And everywhere delegation VGIK waited for a warm and friendly welcome.
The Influence of World Cinema Masterpieces on the Creative Worldview of the Filmmaker
Authors: Malyshev Vladimir S
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the influence of a masterpiece on the creative persons emotional perception and the role of this phe nomenon on the artists formation. The author analyses the relationship between the force of aesthetical experience and the filmmakers artistic style as well as the significance of this event in the context of the filmmakers work. The analysis is based on the authors personal conversations with outstanding Russian directors.
Historical time in a film structure(end, beginning in № 1)
Authors: Marievskaya Natal'ya Evgen'evna , Marievskaya Natalia
Published: February 2020

Time is the main expressive means of cinema. Any film is a dynamic spiritual form of time. No film is free from historical time. The article investigates the different forms that historical time takes in a work of film art as an artistic whole and analyses the relationship between historical time with the lyrical time of the character and the mythological time of the film. The problem of "period film" and historical stylization is also analysed
History of the Portrait
Authors: Trankvillitskiy Yuriy Nikolaevich , Trankvillitsky Yuri
Published: February 2020

This article is a fragment of the book "The Symphony of Light and Shadows. The Way to Higher Photographic Skills", which is being prepared for publication. It analyzes one of the most difficult aspects of fine art-work on the portrait of a man
Russian Cinema for Children and Adolescents. Unsolved Problems
Authors: Sidorenko Vitaliy Ignat'evich , Sidornko Vitary Ignatyevich
Published: February 2020

The article covers the problems of Russian
children's cinema which being "overboard" the existing
chain of market relations for a variety of reasons is the most
unprofitable and unattractive business.
Second World War Film Chronicle
Authors: Prozhiko Galina Semenovna , Prozhiko Galina Semyonovna
Published: February 2020

The article is a fragment of the book «The Screen of World Documentary», prepared for publication, and deals with the organization of propaganda and the artistic problems of newsreel and documentary film during World War II in the USA, Great Britain and Germany.
Some Aspects of Mythological Reality
Authors: Chizhevskaya Ol'ga Aleksandrovna , Chizhevskaya Olga Alexandrovna
Published: February 2020

The article is based on the material of the «Artistic Culture Paradoxes» debating society session on «Cinema between Mythology and Reality», held on April 27th, 2010 at VGIK. It covers some issues connected with myth making and interpretation and investigates the properties and forms of the mythological space
Traditions and Innovations in Film Education
Authors: Novikov Aleksandr Vasil'evich , Novikov Alexander Vasilyevich
Published: February 2020

The issues of training new creative staff for film industry and audiovisual sphere are of vital importance today.
The appearance of digital technologies caused great changes and it could not but have its effect on film education as the «first step of film industry». This problem was the subject-matter of the international conference "Film Education: Tradition and Innovations» held at VGIK on the occasion of the university's 90th anniversary. The report analyses the modern innovative processes affecting the film schools teaching practice at the beginning of the 21st century
Artist and Repression: Reflections
Authors: Perel'shteyn Roman Maksovich , Perelshtein Roman Maksovich
Published: February 2020

Following the decision of the Learned Council and the Plan of Academic Development the Student Academic Society (SAS) was organized whose first action was to create the Student Debating Club which plans to make regular screenings of Russian and foreign films with their subsequent discussion. The Student Debating Club is going to analyze the essential artistic and cultural problems. And because on of the most important directions of the SAS is students' research work, active cooperation with student societies of other universities is intended which presupposes invitations to the screenings and discussions and realization of mutual creative projects. At present the plan for the next year is being worked out
The Unknown Cinema of the War and Victory
Authors: Grashchenkova Irina Nikolaevna , Grashchenkova Irina Nikolayevna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the history of making Russian films during the tough war years. Many films shot by famous directors have been released and justly appreciated. But there is also an unknown wartime cinema. These fiction films, feature-length and short, stored in film archives, are of great interest to both cinema scholars and wide audience.
Theory of Marginality and the Cinemaof Postmodernism (P.P. Pasolini,R. Khamdamov, J. Stelling, L. von Trier)
Authors: Koblenkova Diana Viktorovna , Koblenkova Diana Viktorovna
Published: February 2020

The paper analyses four «auteur» films: «Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom» (P.P. Pasolini), «Anna Karamazoff» (R. Khamdamov), «De Wisselwachter» (J. Stelling), «Breaking the Waves» (L. von Tier) in the context of the postmodern theory of marginality.
The Convergent and Integration Aspects of Mass Media Evolution in the Information Age
Authors: Urazova Svetlana Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

Digital technologies (computer, broadcasting, telecommunication) make a marked impact on media market causing mass media to reform. In reclaiming digital multimedia environment mass media begin to rearrange themselves both structurally and in terms of introducing new management methods in order to create and proliferate a multivariate content. The emerging tendency encourages journalists to revise their professional approaches to creating an information product. The assembly-line type of creativity becomes dominant, and acquiring universal professional skills allows journalists to work in all known media spheres. The article investigates the convergent and integration aspects of mass media evolution at the stage of information society formation
Dramatic Peculiarities of Ecological film
Authors: Trusevich Yelizaveta Sergeyevna
Published: February 2020

The notion "Ecological Film" is being quite frequently used by film scholars today, especially when it comes to documentary films or тction films using animals as actors. In both cases the film's creators turn to the theme of Nature, which makes it possible to treat this category of screen production as a separate art form. The article covers the artistic motivations making the world's best documental filmmakers (Verner Herzog, Godfrey Reggio, etc.) turn to this theme, and the dramatic methods characteristic of ecological film.
Artistic Merit as a Russian Film Competitiveness Factor
Authors: Ziborova Olga Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The present investigation was held within the framework of the research project "Russian Film Competitiveness" commissioned by the RF Ministry of Culture (supervised by M.I. Zhabsky, Ph. D in Sociology). The project's aim was to make a complex (economic, artistic and sociological) analysis of Russian cinema competitiveness factors in the home market, to work out practical recommendations to governmental institutions and private companies for raising the competitive capacity of Russian films, to create the methods of the audience's demand monitoring and form a data base for medium-term forecasting
The Birth of a Personality from the Carnival Spirit
Authors: Kolotaev Vladimir Alekseevich , Kolotayev Vladimir Alexeyevich
Published: February 2020

The media space of "South Park" is organized according to M.M. Bakhtins carnival model of culture. It is bases on such attributes of folk laughter culture as bawdy gestures, obscene vocabulary, exaggerated sexuality, carnal symbols, grotesque and mockery of the upper classes. The series' creators, however, make principal conceptual changes in Bakhtins modeL If the classic carnival enhanced the hierarchical system of the power and strengthened the collective mentality, "South Park" by laughing at mass culture values weakens the crowd's instincts and encourages the emergence of a self-conscious individual alien to any ideology. The analysis of certain episodes has shown that new identity patterns are being formed in the media space of mass culture and these patterns are becoming quite common not only in Hollywood films but in political and social spheres as well.
A Film as an "Unfinished Script": theProblem of Composition
Authors: Korshunov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich , Korshunov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich
Published: February 2020

There is an interesting tendency in the cinema of the 21st century first decade. We see the appearance of films based on the modification of the "film about film" theme which can be tentatively defined as "a film as an unfinished scriptn. The film's subject is the process of its creation. There are five particularly obvious examples: "Adaptation" (Spike Jonze, 2002), "A Movie about the Movies" (V. Rubinchik, 2002), "Reconstruction" (Chrisofler Вое, 2003), "Waiter" (Alex van Warmerdam, 2006) and "Stranger than Fiction" (M. Forster, 2006). The article
investigates the peculiarities of these films' composition, the principles of the plot and attempts to understand the sources of this phenomenon in the cinema of the recent years.
The Mirror Shield: the Camera as anInstrument of Civil Defence
Authors: Naveskin Roman Aleksandrovich , Naveskin Roman Alexandrovich
Published: February 2020

Another session of the Student Club under the Student Academic Society (SAS)took place in May at VGIK. The audience was shown the notorious "Tarnation" made by Jonathan Caouette, a 32-year-old gay Texas filmmaker who compiled this film from over 160-hour footage of himself and his Jamily. The movie aroused a heated discussion participated by VGIK students and guests from other universities. In the course of the discussion the idea of using a hand-held video camera as an instrument of civil self-defense was suggested In connection with the new academic year and the resuming of the SASs activity this theme is worth a closer examination.
A Film Director in Search of the Genre
Authors: Maslennikov Igor' Fedorovich , Maslennikov Igor Fyodorovkh
Published: February 2020

The book of EL Maslennikov, a well-known film director, "From Personal Experience: Maxims, Theses, Observations, Quotes, Events, Gossip, Rumours and Lies" published as a teaching aid for would-be film and TV directors has quickly become a best-seller. At the moment its second edition is being prepared which is going to include new "piles" written by the author. One of them is presented in our journal
I.F. Maslennikov: "The cinema of emotion forms the spiritual and sensual perception of life"
Authors: Urazovoy S L , Urazova S L
Published: February 2020

Ihe problems of sharing and acquiring professional skills, forming professional thinking and approaches to film production in future film directors are most vital at the present stage of screen culture development The conversation wiui I.E Maslennikov, whose films are very popular with the audience, took place at VGIK where the noted Russian filmmaker teaches
A. Zvyagintsev's «The Banishment» and the Tradition of Transcendental Cinema
Authors: Klyueva Lyudmila Borisovna , Kljueva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article 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
Axiology of the Political Dichotomy of the Russian Screen Content's Political "Overtone"
Authors: Ilchenko Sergei Nikolayevich
Published: February 2020

The article analyses the political confrontations in Russian history of the 20th century as reflected in domestic audiovisual productions. The problem of the relationship between "the Reds" and "the Whites" is investigated by the author through films and TV shows in terms of the value systems of the belligerent social forces.
Hellenistic Reform. Epicureanism and Image Deviations
Authors: Burov Andrey Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article explores the image foundations of the last classic period, the large-scale socio-political and plastic reform of which led to certain changes in the functioning of the image. The image began to be subtilized and intimized, i.e. to define its traits according to the personal perception which it had never done before. It obtained broad powers of imitating models and resorted to replication, joined in the individual perception and impersonal mass vision, became an object of routine perception and unprivileged lifestyle. The analysis of the epoc's pictorial style will reveal its spirit and - no matter what - the model limitations of the image's existence.
Situations and Characters of American Pre-War Cinema
Authors: Fomina Victoria Andreyevna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the popular dramatic situations the psychological history of American pre-war cinema is based on. Alongside with the analysis of the America's fifty top-grossing films of the 1930s the author investigates the popular plots and character types. This survey is probably the first case of employing the frequency analysis method in cinema studies.
The Influence of Newest Audiovisual Technologies on the Audience
Authors: Kosenkova Natalia Gennagievna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the effect modern technologies used in film production have on the audience and covers the problems of forming visual culture, the impact of technology on this process, expanding the sphere of the "visible" for a modern individual and incorporating new unusual objects that emerge at the intersection of hyper- reality and fantasy into it.
Russian Television: the Conflict of Matrices
Authors: Dzyaloshinskiy Iosif Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article examines some issues connected with the impact of the interior institutional, cultural and communicative matrices on the functioning of Russian media and television in particular, as the most popular and influential resource of public communication. The author reveals the link between institutional matrices, defining the life of the society in general, communicative matrices, regulating social communication, and media matrices setting the limits of professional activity in the sphere of television.
The Peculiarities of Modern Television Speech
Authors: Gegelova Natalia Sergeyevna
Published: February 2020

The article surveys the state of modern on- air speech illustrated by the examples of the programs with substandard vocabulary and examines the language behavior of modern presenters.
Artistic Ambitions of Screen Document at the Turn of the Century
Authors: Prozhiko Galina Semyonovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the auteur film, a specific phenomenon in the documentary cinema of the turn of the 21st century as exemplified by the works of such outstanding masters as Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Godfrey Reggio, Wim Wenders. The text is part of a large monograph devoted to the history of world documentary (publications in Issues 7, 8).
Mythology and Conventions of American Pre-War Cinema
Authors: Fomina Victoria Andreyevna
Published: February 2020

The article investigates Georges Polti's dramatic situations which serve as the basis for making conclusions about the American pre-war cinema. By means of frequency analysis of 50 American top-grossing films of the 1930s the author explores the mythology and conventions of pre-war America. Dramatic Situation 12 "Obtaining" is reflected in the "American Cinderella" myth which is, however, a false mirror of the popular story.
Still Life in the Space of the Film
Authors: Gvozdeva Yelena Vladimirovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the role of the still life in the film's visual treatment and analyses the possible ways of the cinematic usage of an object. Two main tendencies - semantic and visual - are singled out. An object (or a still life as a collection of objects) is treated as one of the elements forming the film's visual environment. The problem is considered on the material of the Russian cinema of the 1960s-1980s.
Humanitarian Practices in Modern Audiovisual Technologies
Authors: Urazova Svetlana Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

The multimedia and multi-platform character of the modern media market as an attribute of contemporary reality has been expanding considerably the informative potential of the society in using various hardware based on audiovisual technologies. This, however, does not eliminate a number of contradictions in the sphere of humanitarian practices formed by mass media. The article explores the relationship between technological innovations and value systems in the context of the screen content which is growing at an exponential rate, and traces the dependence of humanitarian categories on social needs.
The Iranian Cinema of the 20th Century (1900-1980)
Authors: Mirakhorli Ahmad
Published: February 2020

In the first decade of the 20th century Iran saw the advent of cinema, a new art form which has had its ups and downs. But the real break-through in Iranian cinema reflecting the national character and the country's rich culture occurred only in the 1970s with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers.
Live Broadcast of Terrorist Acts as Media Mythology of Show-Civilization
Authors: Ilchenko Sergey Nikolaevich
Published: February 2020

The article surveys the interpretation of September 11th, 2001 in the context of modern media culture development. The author concludes that the broadcasting of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and the subsequent tragic events were predetermined by the modern show- civilization in which visualization of any event makes a powerful impact on mass audience.
Homo Informaticus as a Personality Type. The Conflict of Spectacular and Real on the Screen
Authors: Urazova Svetlana Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

The evolution of informational culture which can be treated as media culture due to the development of audiovisual technologies, puts a number of questions brought about by the emergence of a new personality type, homo informaticus (informational man). The article covers the conflict between the nature of television with its tendency for spectacularity and the informational requirements of the modern society which demands an authentic presentation of the world.
The Individual and Contemporary in Yuliy Raizman's Late Work
Authors: Sopin Artyom Olegovich
Published: February 2020

The article examines the films made in the 1960s and 1970s by the filmmakers who became popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Some particular aspects of their adaptation to the new means of artistic expressiveness and adherence to certain themes are analyzed as exemplified by the work of Yuliy Raizman who collaborated with screenwriter Ye. I. Gabrilovich, namely, by their mutual films Your Contemporary (1967), A Strange Woman (1977) and Raizman's Courtesy Call (1972).
A Symbolic Visual Structures in A. Sokurov's cinema
Authors: Tikhonova Margarita Yevgenievha
Published: February 2020

The article examines some instruments of A. Sokurov's visual language, i.e. the system of symbolic structures which allow the filmmaker to reveal the metaphysics of life and death, to show the dialectics of the outer and inner vision. The principles of incorporating the system in question into the film's composition are viewed as exemplified by the films The Lonely Voice of Man and Mother and Son.
The Line in Neo-Modernism Geometrical Abstraction
Authors: Burov Andrey Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article overviews the development of the line as a pictorial element in Neo-Modernism. It refers to different variants of linear strategy in geometric abstractions and the tendency of the line to become the leading element of the work of art up to pure linear constructions, such as a two-or three- dimensional grid. This grid is the key structure of the new forms of modern art built on repetition.
Observing the Observer, or the Poetics of Deconstruction. Based on New York, I Love You by A. Zvyagintsev
Authors: Kljueva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article analyses the director's strategy in A. Zvyagintsev's New-York, I Love You. This film is an observation, a cinematic deconstruction revealing the inner dramaturgy of the examined event. The film's semantic field is structured by the opposition the observer - the observed object. The scholar's task is to penetrate into the text's poetics based on double observation, i.e. the observation of the observer.
Language, Speech and Image in Analysing Artistic Forms
Authors: Mikheyeva Yulia Vsevolodovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with such phenomena as "Language", "Speech" and "Image" in the context of the hermeneutic interpretation and understanding of a literary text and a wider notion of the form this text is incorporated in. The author introduces the terms "image-opus" and "speech-opus" to describe the relationship between the image and speech on the one hand, and the perceiving mind on the other, and proves the importance of developing a theoretical model (reconstruction) of a work of art as a collaboration of the author and interpreter which is vital for the functioning of a speech-opus. In view of making a theoretical model as an adequate and vivid reconstruction of the literary text such notions as "esthetic feeling", "event" and "dialogism" are introduced.
Homo Informaticus as a Personality Type. The Conflict of Spectacular and Real on the Screen
Authors: Urazova Svetlana Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

The evolution of informational culture which can be treated as media culture due to the development of audiovisual technologies, puts a number of questions brought about by the emergence of a new personality type, homo informaticus (informational man). The article (Conclusion. For the beginning: see Issue # 9) covers the conflict between the nature of television with its tendency for spectacularity and the informational requirements of the modern society which demands an authentic presentation of the world
“My Friend Ivan Lapshin” as a Screen Adaptation
Authors: Sibirtseva Yelena Igorevna
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the analysis of the film “My Friend Ivan Lapshin” as the adaptation of Yu. German’s story “Lapshin” and examines the methods of translation from the language of literature to that of cinema. In the author’s opinion, it is due to this translation from one esthetic system into another that the figure of the Narrator emerges
The Poetic Cinema of the Post-Cultural Era
Authors: Yeliseyeva Yelena Alexeyevna
Published: February 2020

The article analyses the perception of the poetic cinema visual images as exemplified by Russian films made in various decades. The author shows the changes in the expressive manner used by the filmmakers of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century
Moral Aspects of Russian PreRevolutionary Cinema
Authors: Rostotskaya Marianna Albertovna
Published: February 2020

Yevgeniy Bauer was an outstanding exponent of the refined mass culture that began to penetrate into spiritual life at the beginning of the 20th century. The article investigates the moral conflicts and patterns that lay behind Bauer’s films and reflected the ethical guidelines of the mass audience in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
The factors of competitive ability of national film industries
Authors: Zhabskiy Mikhail Ivanovich
Published: February 2020

Why does one country dominate in European film space while many others are on the edge of total loss of cinematic independence, but some, being strongly dependant, nevertheless try to stand up for themselves and sometimes succeed? Using statistical material, the article prepared by the State Institute of Art Studies highlights the deep objective and subjective factors determining the outcome of the of the rivalry between national film industries.
Essential Peculiarities of Time Representation in the post-perestroika cinema
Authors: Bezenkova Maria Viktorovna
Published: February 2020

The article studied time representation in the Russian perestroika cinema (1984-1994) from the point of formation of the new screen chronotope canon in the context of socio-psychological realities of the period.
On the Forth Dimension in Animation. Synthetic Peculiarities of Puppet Cartoon Screenwriting
Authors: Fomina Viktoria Andreevna
Published: February 2020

The study of the fourth dimension in the Old Russian icon painting and the XX-th century physics allows to reveal a number of regularities essential for screen writing. The range of screen presentations of non-physical sphere permits to study the 4-dimensional film space. The article includes the analysis of Yu. Lotman’s dramaturgy pattern in the chronotope of the Russian puppet film. The spatial pattern is particularly obvious when used in the animation synthesis typical for 3-D animation. The combination of different display types has nowadays become an evident tendency widely exceeding the boundaries of animation as a whole and puppet film in particular.
The Actor’s Perception of the Partner’s Speech
Authors: Avtushenko Irina Anatolyevna
Published: February 2020

The article explores the process of auditory perception as part of scenic communication. The ability to hear plays an important role in theatric action as it generates true intercommunication. When the partners on stage really listen and hear each other, their speech becomes vivid and intimate. How can one achieve the novelty of impression? It is done by means of introducing new shades of intonation and pace connected with the partner’s immediate feelings. The ability to understand the partner’s inner life and expressing the emotional intonation of the actor’s speech is determined by the possession of the emotional ear which can and must be developed at Speech Technique classes.
The War in Yury German’s Novel «Operation «Happy New Year!» and Alexey German’s Film «Trial on the Road»
Authors: Sibirtseva Yelena Igorevna
Published: February 2020

The article analyses Alexey German’s film «Trial on the Road» as the screen adaptation of Yury German’s novel «Operation 'Happy New Year!’» It examines the specific features of translating literature into film language. According to the author of the article, due to these features the theme of the war is developed in the film in a somewhat different way than it is done in the book.
The Role of Memory in the Perception of the Screen Image
Authors: Nikitina Irina Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the methodological significance of defining the examined phenomenon, particularly, art. It is shown that the procedure is complex and ambiguous. The author analyses the principal types of the definition of art — empirical, metaphysical and institutional — and argues that the final definition of the notion «art» has not been found yet.
Who Is the Subject, and Who Is the Actor of Culture?
Authors: Neretin Oleg Petrovich
Published: February 2020

The article considers the problem of the subject of culture, differentiating between the notions «subject of culture», «auteur of culture» and «cultural elite» which reflect specific characteristics of the bearer and the creator of the cultural activity. The distinction between the notions assumes theoretical and practical significance for culture administration.
World War Two in the Cinema of the Late 1950s
Authors: Zaitseva Lydia Alexeyevna
Published: February 2020

The article explores the theme of the war in the cinema of the late 1950s as exemplified by the landmark films of the period: «Soldiers» (dir. A. Ivanov) and «The Cranes Are Flying» (dir. M. Kalatozov) with the protagonist as an ordinary person poorly suited for warfare on the one pole of the conflict, and the tragic character of the alien situations on the other.
Art between Scylla and Charybdis Panel Discussion: «Paradoxes of Modern Artistic Culture»
Authors: - -
Published: February 2020

This image-bearing name was given to the sitting of the Discussion club «Paradoxes of Modern Art Culture» arranged by the Chair of aesthetics, culture history and theory of VGIK together with a group of postnonclassic aesthetics of the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy. It was devoted to discussing a fundamental work by V.Bichkov, N.Mankovskaya, V.Ivanov «Trialogue. Living Aesthetics and Modern Philosophy of Art»(Moscow, Progress-Tradition, 2012, 840 pages, illustr.) All the participants unanimously agreed that «Trialogue» could justly be named an encyclopedia of modern artistic culture.
Cinema and Advertising: Enemies or Allies?
Authors: Zvegintseva Irina Anatolievna
Published: February 2020

The article considers the ways of cinema and advertising business interaction. Special attention is given to the use of Product Placement technology(placement of a certain trade mark, goods or services in a work of art: film, TV film, series or TV program, literature, play etc) in present-day cinema.
Sociocultural Functions of Film Libraries and Archives
Authors: Malyshev Vladimir Sergeyevich
Published: February 2020

The article surveys the sociocultural principles of the functioning of film libraries and archives in terms of the evolution of the film archive sphere, mainly as exemplified by the history of the FIAF, whose ideology and practical activity the new trends in this field reflect.
Artistic and Aesthetical Aspects of the Systematic Change in the First Half of the 20th Century
Authors: Burov Andrey Mikhailovich
Published: February 2020

The article highlights certain artistic and aesthetical aspects of the systematic change in the art of the first half of the 20th century. Based on specific factors, the author discovers a number of basic criteria for the artistic, aesthetical and structural evaluation of post-visual phrases (relevant for both post-visual phrase of the first half of the 20th century and the postvisual phrase of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning og the 21st century).
The Role of Memory in the Perception of the Screen Image
Authors: Poznin Vitaly Fyodorovich
Published: February 2020

The article investigates one of the aspects of psychology of art, namely, the role of different types of human memory — sensory, long-time, short-time — in the forming of an artistic image in the perception of an audiovisual entity. The audience’s perception of such specific cinematic methods as pan shot and dolly shot, as well as different types of parallel, associative and distance montage rests on the peculiarities of our short-time and long-time memory. On the other hand, the complex polyphonic combination of various visual chronotopes in modern films is based on the imitation of memory typical for our dreams.
Social and Economic Aspects of Forming Film Audience
Authors: Voskolovich Nina Alexandrovna , Molchanov Igor Nikolaevich
Published: February 2020

The article reveals the interplay of the economic, physical and social factors determining Russian movie audience. Social changes and the corresponding process of forming consumptive preferences regarding films, television and internet as three competing spheres, require the commercial stimulation of the audience’s activity which includes artistic promotion.
The Influence of the Marketability Factors on the TV Company
Authors: Yakusheva Victoriya Vladimorovna
Published: February 2020

The author studies the problem of the competitive recovery of Russian TV channels and the new ways of achieving commercial success. The Public Limited Company “Channel 1” and the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company produce and feature similar audio-visual production, have the same market shares and rates of growth, but substantially different competitive edges. Why? The author gives a thorough analysis of the leading media brands, methods of the TV business protection in particular situations and the factors that can influence the management process.
Golden Eagle-2012. Inpressions
Authors: Yeliseyeva Yelena Alexandrovna
Published: February 2020

The author shares her impressions on recent Russian films and analyses the visual tendencies in modern films.
The Non-Selection Virus. A. Zvygintsev’s “Elena” in Terms of Identity theory
Authors: Kluyeva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article (the conclusion; for the beginning see ## 12-13) 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 analysis is done from two points of view: the philosophy of the film (the anthropological aspect) and in terms of the identity.
To the Issue of Modernization of the Cultural Sphere State Regulations
Authors: Molchanov Igor Nikolaevich , Molchanova Nataliya Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The article explains the importance and the urgency of realizing the active government policy in the cultural sphere. The current problems of its functioning are discussed and the possible solutions are formulated. The program-target approach and social-oriented budgeting are recommended as the priority methods in realization of goal-setting development.
On modeling TV programs
Authors: Vanchenko Tatyana Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The present-day television being of fundamental social significance, dramatically anticipates theoretical studies in this sphere. In other words, it is not theory that determines praxis, but vice versa. The author analyzes the method of modeling TV programs and their classifications.
Rolf de Heer, one of the most unpredictable film directors
Authors: Zvegintseva Irina Anatolyevna
Published: February 2020

A profile of Rolf de Heer.
Kiki de Montparnasse and Ivan Mozzhukhin
Authors: Dolmatovskaya Galina Yevgenyavna
Published: February 2020

The article traces back the relations of the most prominent representatives of the Paris Bohemia of the twenties. The letters of magnificent Kiki de Montparnasse shed light on out-of-the way bits of information about the great Russian actor Ivan Mozzhukhin.
State backing of non-fiction film
Authors: Malkova Liliana Yuryevna
Published: February 2020

The article, based on the authorial analysis of the post-Soviet documentary film, focuses on the state system of organizational and financial support. It is analyzed in comparison with the Soviet practices of thematic planning, its evolution over 20 years, legal inconsistencies of the transition to market relations, which either casts the documentary film back to the predetermined from above object-matters or presupposes the budget division between interested film producers. Many years’ experience in the Expert Council of the Culture Ministry allows the author to give an outward glance on the problem of the insufficient demand of the documentary cinema.
American cinema of the Great Depression. The «Social Restlessness Phase»
Authors: Zakharov Dmitriy Vladislavovich
Published: February 2020

The article overviews the American cinema of the 1930 in terms of the “cyclic conception” stating that the life of American society is subject to a distinctive algorhithm of public mood: “social restlessness” alternating with “private interest”. The author surveys gangster film, one of the dominating genres of the Depression cinema as exemplified by “The Pubic Enemy (1931, dir. William A. Wellman). The article also traces the links of the “social restlessness” films of the 1930s with the previous and subsequent phases stressing the problem of dividing each phase into stages: formation, prime and decline.
Mythological Time. The Image of the Past in Grigoriy Chukhray’s «Ballad of a Soldier»
Authors: Bezenkova Maria Viktorovna
Published: February 2020

The article traces the tendencies of representing the past in the Soviet cinema of the Thaw as exemplified by Grigoriy Chukhray’s «Ballad of a Soldier».
Film as Text. Some Aspects of Text Analysis
Authors: Kluyeva Ljudmila Borisovna
Published: February 2020

The article focuses on the problem of the text as a universal category and the primary reality of any studied cultural phenomenon. It also touches upon a range of issues connected with different approaches to literary text analysis.
Artistic Space as a Modern Aesthetical Category
Authors: Nikitina Irina Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The article describes the process of transforming the concept of “artistic space” into a category of modern aesthetics due to the work of various 20th century philosophers (O. Spengler, M. Heidegger, P. Florensky, etc.) The author argues that unlike the chronotope, which is a local notion relevant only for temporal arts, the notion of “artistic space” is universal and valid for all art-forms.
Shadi Abdel Salam, «the Pharaoh of Egyptian Cinema»
Authors: Shakhov Anatoliy Sergeyevich
Published: February 2020

A profile of Shadi Abdel Salam, an out standing Egyptian filmmaker, screenwriter, artist and teacher.
Evolution of the TV documentary genres and the principles of its classification
Authors: Shergova Xenia Alexandrovna
Published: February 2020

The article explores the key aspects of the documentary genre evolution. The principle of blending different genre features within a TV product so typical of nowadays is in fact immanent to the genre as such. Proceeding from the very concept of genre, the author shows that genre implies evolution, transition from old forms to new ones which is determined by a combination of social, technical and esthetical aspects.
Social and cultural effects of the fragmentation of the audience
Authors: Bakulev Gennady Petrovich
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the problem of multimedia audience fragmentation. In the first period of the media boom the audience in the usual meaning of this term seemed to be shrinking dramatically. But recent findings show that media users keep migrating between lots of channels. The two main ways to study the audience fragmentation explored by the author — the media-centrical and the user-centrical ones — confirm that the audience is in a state of “floating fragmentation”.
Alexander Sokurov’s “Faust”: Goethe’s Philosophic Implications as a Problem
Authors: Khrenov Nikolai Andreyevich
Published: February 2020

The article is devoted to the unique cinematic masterpiece — Sokurov’s attempt to use Goethe’s “Faust” for making a statement about the most acute phenomena of the recent century connected with the emergence of masses, mass societies and, consequently, of leaders and dictators. The author speculates on the reasons why Goethe’s great tragedy took so much time and effort to be writteen and was published in the final version only posthumously. The answer to this question helps us understand the message of the film.
The Analysis of Artistic Time in the Theory of Film Dramaturgy
Authors: Marievskaya Natalia Yevgenyevna
Published: February 2020

The article covers the methodological problems of forming film dramaturgy theory due to the absence of the general strategy of analyzing the artistic time of the film.
Aesthetic Analysis of the Show as a Concept
Authors: Vanchenko Tatiana Petrovna
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the aesthetic principles of the show as a mass cultural phenomenon, surveys its representation in various dictionaries, determines the origins and development of the show as a cultural fact and explores a specific type of spectacle.
Travel with Walter Salles
Authors: Vetrova Tatiana Nikolayevna
Published: February 2020

An overview of the work of film director Walter Salles.
On media conflict and new forms of screen product
Authors: Urazova Svetlana Leonidovna
Published: February 2020

The transition of the TV to the digital broadcast platform and the regenerating media-space cause certain alterations in the programming policy of TV channels. The change in the existence conditions of the TV as a market entity accounts for the reforming of its structural, artistic and production activity. The search for new forms and conceptions of the screen content is determined by transformations in social life. The article explores the confrontation of media and society particularly evident in the digital era and the influence of innovative technologies on the emergence of new screen product forms.