Vol 8, No 2, 2016
- Year: 2016
- Articles: 16
- URL: https://vestnik-vgik.com/2074-0832/issue/view/878
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/VGIK82
CHRONICLE IN DETAIL | CURRENT EVENTS
Tribute to the Teacher
6-6
THEORY AND HISTORY OF CINEMA | AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
Animated Poster: Its Origins, Specificity and Peculiarity
Abstract
The present article opens the series of articles Animated poster: Periodization and Modification of the Genre’ devoted to the animated poster which has not been investigated by Russian film scholars until recently. The author gives the definition of the animated poster, reveals its main types, offers the principles of its classification, determines its origins and specific features.
7-22
23-32
FILM LANGUAGE AND TIME | IMAGE GENESIS
Adultery in Russian Cinema: From the “Thaw” to the End of the Soviet Epoch
Abstract
The article surveys the portrayal of adultery in the Russian cinema of 1950-1990s. The theme of the crisis in romantic and family relations is matched up with the stages of the country’s social and cultural development, ideological crisis and the process of feminization of the culture.
33-44
PERFORMANCE | ART OF PRESENTATION
Modernist Cinema of Andrey Tarkovsky
Abstract
The article examines the work of Andrey Tarkovsky in the context of the 20 th century Modernist art. Dividing the world into the profane and sacral, the time and eternity, using the motifs characteristic of the literature of the early 1900s can also be found in Tarkovsky’s films. The development of the world film modernism is inconceivable without this Russian filmmaker.
45-58
Kaleidoscope Aesthetics in Visual Media
Abstract
The article researches into the evolution of the kaleidoscopic image. The first part surveys A.L. Coburn’s vortographic experiments of the 1910s, the kaleidoscopizing of a human body and natural objects in photography during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, as well as the ideas of using it outside artistic practices.
59-69
SCREEN CULTURE | CULTURAL STUDIES. PHILOSOPHY
The Moral Law of Love Conservation
Abstract
The article continues the search for the moral categories that reveal the raison d’être of literary and drama characters started in the author’s other works. It also defines the code of the time which allowed the author to determine the formula of love and show how this feeling has changed in history.
71-83
Violence in Films: Three Preconditions for the Mimetic Effect
Abstract
The author tests the hypothesis of the cause-and-effect link between showing violence in the movies with its manifestations in real life as exemplified in Russian material and gives empirical evidence proving this hypothesis.
84-96
WORLD CINEMA | ANALYSIS
Isao Takahata’s Nostalgia
Abstract
The article is devoted to the work of Isao Takahata, a Japanese animation director. A co-founder of ‘Studio Ghibli’, a representative of realistic anime, he is famous for his films “Grave of the Fireflies”, “Only Yesterday”, “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”.
97-107
Primary Cinema Sources of American Noir
Abstract
The article analyses the two main sources of American ‘film noir’: the German cinema of the Weimar period (1919-1933) and American gangster film (1920-1930), pointing out the principal stylistic, thematic and conceptual techniques that influenced the forming of the ‘noir’ style in the American movies of the 1940-1950s.
108-118
FILM BUSINESS | MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND TACTICS
Development of the Financial Relations in the Cultural Sphere
Abstract
The article explores financial relations in the sphere of culture. Analyzing international and domestic practice and the possible ways of its improvement, the author offers the ways of enhancing the business results of the activity of cultural institutions.
119-132
TELEVISION | DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
Documentary Footage in the TV Film Portrait: Methods and Techniques of Mastering
Abstract
The article explores the mechanisms of using historical documentary footage in creating biographical TV shows. The author analyses the methods of incorporating ‘alien texts’ into a new cinematic text and proves the relevance of TV biographies as a unique discourse practice of memory reproduction.
133-143
READING-ROOM | BOOK SHELF
ChITAL'NYY ZAL | KNIZhNAYa POLKA
70-70
ChITAL'NYY ZAL | KNIZhNAYa POLKA
144-146
ХРОНИКА В ДЕТАЛЯХ | МЕРОПРИЯТИЯ ВГИК
147-151
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REKOMENDATsII AVTORAM
158-159