THE BEAR-TURNSKIN IN THE RUSSIAN CINEMA: TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMAGE Cover Image

МЕДВЕДЬ-ОБОРОТЕНЬ В РОССИЙСКОМ КИНЕМАТОГРАФЕ: ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ОБРАЗА
THE BEAR-TURNSKIN IN THE RUSSIAN CINEMA: TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMAGE

Author(s): L. Kouznetsova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Semiology, Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: cinema; movie; bear; turnskin; werewolf; beast; human being;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the evolution of human–bear and bear–human image in the Russian cinema. A semiotic status of the bear in Soviet and Post-Soviet movies is as follows: the bear turns out to be a kind of human Doppelgänger, the main enemy and an embodiment of the non-human &uncanny. On the other hand, he marks a boundary between the human and the non-human, the nature and the social sphere, the moral and the immoral.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 107-116
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian