Vol 2, No 1 (2010)

The rapidly developing interactive digital technologies in the field of sharper TV pictures and modern displays are actively invading the socio-cultural space, opening a new era of information visualization, as well as affecting the model of the society functioning. They also increase the economic effect. The article is devoted to the development of «outside» television and «outside» day cinema, digital technologies that form a special kind of screen culture due to video information system screens that are fixed both in open space of cities and settlements and in the interiors of the crowded buildings

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

In the article the author defines the concept "remake" using such films as «Once Again about Love», «The Sky. The Plane. The Girl», etc. as examples. The purpose of the work is to give a comparative analysis (both formal and sociological) of the films, to underline the autonomy of the new productions connected with the present cultural situation and to reveal the possibilities of the remake.

This paper analyzes the dramatic color of Honore de Balzac's novels "Shagreen" (1831) and "Father Goriot" (1834). Using symbolic colors, different color details and motives, color and light accents, decoloration Balzac creates dramatic contrasts, transforms the time, reveals the inner state of the characters. The writer's works are the result of the brilliant application of the reflex theory to literature suggested by Eugene Delacroix, a painter and Balzac's contemporary. Artistic intensity and the diversity of color elements in Balzac's novels are one of the vivid steps on the way to the chromatic and not just color cinema as Eisenstein wrote. The correlation of prose and film was one of the main subjects of Nina Anosova's research. A talented literary and film scholar and teacher, a Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and Histroy Institute (IFLI) graduate, she spent over 55 years teaching at VGIK. Such prominent filmmakers as Marlene Khutsiev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vasily Shukshin, Gennady Shpalikov, Yuri Arabov, Karen Shakhnazarov, Vadim Abdrashitov, Sergey Loznitsa, etc. were among her pupils. The students and graduates of the Institute of Cinematography constantly turn to her works, learning real (deep) analysis and understanding of literature and art.

Фонд учебной библиотеки постоянно пополняется. Наибольшим спросом пользуются книги, способствующие интенсивному образовательному процессу. В 2009 году университетом были выпущены издания, посвященные как 90-летней истории ВГИКа, так и различным аспектам совершенствования профессионального мастерства в различных сферах кинопроизводства.

This publication contains fragments of the interview with Oleg Negin, a screenwriter, the co-author of "The Banishment" directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. The full text will be published in the collected articles «Andrey Zvyagintsev's Cinema». The interview with Oleg explores the main stages of a creative process: the emerging of the idea (a mysterious and intimate period in the life of an artist), its realization in the script "The Banishment", the collaboration with the director A. Zvyagintsev, the production of the film. Special attention is paid to the evaluation of the result and the acquired experience

«For acting trade talking of reality and game as living strategies is essential. While the former implies the idea of "face", the latter gives us the notion of "mask". In various films about filmmaking, such as F. Fellini's "8 1/2", "Everything For Sale" by A. Wajda, "American Night" by F. Truffaud, "The Voice" by I. Averbach, the collision between reality and game becomes crucial. When an actor put on his mask, he needs a mirror that isn't false, which means indifferent, but is true, revealing the face behind the mask affectionately. And a spectator becomes such a mirror».

Фонд учебной библиотеки постоянно пополняется. Наибольшим спросом пользуются книги, способствующие интенсивному образовательному процессу. В 2009 году университетом были выпущены издания, посвященные как 90-летней истории ВГИКа, так и различным аспектам совершенствования профессионального мастерства в различных сферах кинопроизводства.

This article explores the major tendencies of Swedish Cinematography at the beginning of the XXI century. It focuses on analyzing the peculiarities in the Swedish film genre, which was formed during the silent cinema era, however remained dominant until recently. The peculiarities in contemporary Swedish drama are considered to be an original synthesis of two contradictory tendencies of the 1950s and '60s: these are represented by the psycho-philosophical films by I. Bergman and the Socialogical films by B.Viderberg. The article gives a list of key topics in modern films and outlines the peculiarities of their given genres

The article analyzes the main trends of the development of Russia's television during the financial crisis. The structure of broadcasting is shown in terms of branding and a unique method of developing a television brand is suggested. The author considers this technology as one of the strategic measures, maintaining a stable position on the media market. The article analyses the television brand "What? Were? When?», because this program is very famous in the cognitive-game content. The practical application of the technology of forming a television brand is illustrated on the stage of creative development.

The article is devoted to certain tendencies of digital cinema development. It contains the comparison of tape and modern devices based on Panasonic cameras digital technology. Features of different digital recording formats and AVC-Intra codec application are being described.

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