Vol 5, No 3 (2013)

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.

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 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.

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 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.

The article is devoted to the “camp nature” of American movie mix and the process of acquiring its authentic stylistic form determined by its genesis on the one hand, and by the “sensibility of an era” (according to Susan Sontag who coined the term “Camp”), on the other. Using the example of “Batman” (1966) the author shows how the nar rative elements of a comic strip get arranged into a new pattern perceived as a fresh articulation of the “living myth”.

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.

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.

The article explores the creative development of the American and Australian film director and actor Baz Luhrmann.