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The article focuses on the evolution of the vanguard movements in animation in some of the former Socialist countries. As early as the end of the 50s there emerge dark grotesque, eschatological predictions about the forth-coming downfall of humanity, graphic omens of spiritual and physical death that turn in to a specific form of protest against the dogmas of Socialist realism. This “poetry of pessimism” undergoes its asynchronous and non-linear development. And if in the case of Romania or the German Democratic Republic censorship quite efficiently hinders the emergence of extreme misanthropic, individualistic and vanguard-non-communicative films, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria or Hungary it is precisely such films that periodically mark the upward trend of artistic achievement and strive to free the language of art from ideological limitations.
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The article The Eccentric Entropy of the style “Litvinova” is the first research in Bulgaria, dedicated to the only woman in the Russian cinema today who tore to pieces its muscularity. The text analyzes the specifics of her style through the different works of Renata Litvinova as a screenwriter, actress, producer and director.
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The first foreigner, who can film - Charles Nobel, arrives in Bulgaria in 1903. Since then foreign cinematographers periodically visit our country and in a documentary manner present different subjects or make films about nature and the people. Documentary events are more popular - war, upheavals, assaults, etc. In the study presented in details are the documentary films from Great Britain - The Lure of the East (1924), Murder Most Foul! and To be Publicly Executed! (1925) as well as the Bulgarian-German production In the Kingdom of Roses.
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Animation in itself contains in the most generalized way the main parameters of cinema as a space-time art. The present text examines the specifics of the animation image in juxtaposition between the characteristics of animation and chrono-photographic cinema, accenting on three major aspects: image, movement, space and time.
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This article was written in relation to the growing interest in the music of the 17th and 18th century church and monastery bands, which one might observe in recent times. The purpose of this paper is to broaden knowledge of the vocalists and instrumentalists of the Jesuitical band of Saints Peter and Paul’s Church in Cracow. The content of the article was founded on the analysis of manuscripts and printed sources. On the basis of this material the background, place of education and skills of the aforementioned band’s musicians were described. The main part of the paper consists of the produced catalogue of the band’s vocalists and instrumentalists, extending the knowledge of the already known musicians and providing new names, which are missing in the hitherto reference books. It lists 611 musicians altogether.
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