Vol 3, No 1 (2011)

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.

Краткая версия исследования «Российское анимационное кино», проведенного независимой исследовательской компанией Movie Research (MRC) в период с октября по декабрь 2010 года в интересах органов государственного регулирования и основных участников отрасли. Исследование построено на методе глубинных интервью и систематизирует мнения 15 видных представителей анимационной отрасли, среди которых: Лев Бубненков («Пилот»), Георгий Васильев (ПЦ «Аэроплан»), Александр Герасимов («Студия «Мастер-фильм»), Арсен Готлиб («МетрономФильм»), Дмитрий Ловейко («Анимаккорд»), Иван Максимов, мультипликатор, Павел Мунтян (Toonbox), Дмитрий Наумов (ТПМ) и Илья Попов (ГК «Рикки»).

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 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.

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 article is published to commemorate Mikhail Romm's centenary. By analyzing the film "Boule de Suif", the well-known Soviet filmmaker's debut, the author tries to reveal the transformation of the meanings of Maupassant's short story in a certain historic, social and ideological context, to show how the film reflected not only the ideological cliches of the time, but the wise insight of the director who had always developed in himself the astuteness of vision and sense of time.

The article is devoted to the period of forming of the first wave of French Avant-guard (Film Impressionism). It considers the influence of Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the greatest French poets of the 20th century, on the theoretical conception of Louis Delluc, an outstanding film critic and director. Particularly, the closeness of Appolinaire's "lyrical sentience" and Delluc's "lyrical truth" is analyzed.

The aim of the article is to demonstrate how some TV features influence documentary genres. It shows how the mass character of television as a medium tends to typify TV-content especially when it comes to documentary films. In particular the article focuses on the perception of narration forms from a historical point of view.

The requirements of thesis preparing and formatting change every year in accordance with the internal reorganization of the Russian Federation Attestation Committee. It is the intellect, the structure and logic of the thesis and some psychological skills of the degree-seeker that remains unchanged. The article covers the difficult stages of degree-seeking which helps to better understand this "thorny path".

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.