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Личността на героя като модел за колективното социалистическо общество – филмов прочит
A heroic individual as a role model for a collective, socialist society: Creation of a cinematic role

Author(s): Wojciech Józwiak
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, History of Art
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Bulgarian cinema; socialist hero; ideologizing

Summary/Abstract: The need for a new definition of past and present in the spirit of an ideologically burdened interpretation of history as a field for creating new or subject to current interpretation heroic personalities is identified as a major task for Bulgarian cinema of the socialist era. The films allow to present characters whose profiles correspond to the ideological conjuncture. In a totalitarian socialist state, the system, unlike the author, is responsible for the creation and interpretation of a cinematographic work, and as a result it receives an effective tool for political influence to be imposed on society. The actions of individual images filmed and presented are subsequently transferred to the team - to all participants in the construction and strengthening of the new socio-political reality in Bulgaria.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 335-345
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian