Thematical and genre structure of teen film (on American and Soviet examples), 2016
Movies about teenagers and youth have been recognized as an genre by audience and critics. I extr... more Movies about teenagers and youth have been recognized as an genre by audience and critics. I extract this genre main charactiristics and its transformation on popular American examples. I use Bakhtin's chronotope theory to distinguish special cinematic world of those films - chronotope of teenage world. And then I prove this specific genre to be international and crosscultural on multeply examples of Soviet teen films.
The 1950s in the history of our cinema became a transitory stage from the grand style aesthetics ... more The 1950s in the history of our cinema became a transitory stage from the grand style aesthetics to humanistic realism of the Thaw period. One of the most significant traits of this transition was the appearance of young characters on screen (school pupils, students) who were striving to fulfill themselves and find their own way in life. The article analyzes the images of the young people as they were represented in films of that period.
The article reviews film genres and the factors determining genre formation as exemplified by the... more The article reviews film genres and the factors determining genre formation as exemplified by the subgenre of youth criminal drama. Like most genres, it appeared in the USA as an offshoot of the gangster film of the 1930s, on the one hand, and as a result of the emergence of youth subculture. The image of an adolescent criminal is still popular in both mass culture and auteur cinema.
Thematical and genre structure of teen film (on American and Soviet examples), 2016
Movies about teenagers and youth have been recognized as an genre by audience and critics. I extr... more Movies about teenagers and youth have been recognized as an genre by audience and critics. I extract this genre main charactiristics and its transformation on popular American examples. I use Bakhtin's chronotope theory to distinguish special cinematic world of those films - chronotope of teenage world. And then I prove this specific genre to be international and crosscultural on multeply examples of Soviet teen films.
The 1950s in the history of our cinema became a transitory stage from the grand style aesthetics ... more The 1950s in the history of our cinema became a transitory stage from the grand style aesthetics to humanistic realism of the Thaw period. One of the most significant traits of this transition was the appearance of young characters on screen (school pupils, students) who were striving to fulfill themselves and find their own way in life. The article analyzes the images of the young people as they were represented in films of that period.
The article reviews film genres and the factors determining genre formation as exemplified by the... more The article reviews film genres and the factors determining genre formation as exemplified by the subgenre of youth criminal drama. Like most genres, it appeared in the USA as an offshoot of the gangster film of the 1930s, on the one hand, and as a result of the emergence of youth subculture. The image of an adolescent criminal is still popular in both mass culture and auteur cinema.
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And then I prove this specific genre to be international and crosscultural on multeply examples of Soviet teen films.
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And then I prove this specific genre to be international and crosscultural on multeply examples of Soviet teen films.