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Kaptan Fantastik (2016): Kapitalizm Kıskacında Başka Bir Hayat Mümkün mü?

Author(s): Deniz Yüceer Berker,Cem Yıldırım / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 15/2023

All the structural changes that capitalism has caused in the historical process have brought about economic and cultural changes in social life and therefore in social institutions. The family, religion and education institutions, which are among the structures that have undergone changes with capitalism, are important because of their ideological functions at the point of approval of the current system. Today, neoliberalism is seen as a necessity, even a completely natural way to ensure social order in many parts of the world, and it is underlined that no other alternative order is possible. Social institutions and structures are transforming in a way that reinforces this belief. In this context this study examines the movie Captain Fantastic (2016), which is about the life of a family that resists the existing capitalist system and the institutions affected by capitalism, with the lifestyle they have established. The aim of this study is to reveal the discourse of the film within the framework of the question of how possible to live an alternative life completely outside of the institutional structures shaped by capitalism. For this purpose, by using the descriptive analysis method, the compromises and contrasts between the capital system and the family in the movie were tried to be revealed.

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Search for Transcendent in Science Fiction and Apocalyptic Films

Author(s): Osman Sahin / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2023

Humanity gradually shifted away from religion and the sacred in the modern age, but in the postmodern age, people have discovered that science and reason alone cannot satisfy them. As a result, people returned in various ways to mythology, religion, and the mystical. Cinema, one of the most popular arts of the visual age, could not possibly ignore this move. Religious themes and elements are prevalent in films. Humanity has lost confidence in metanarratives thanks to postmodernism, and is shown to be on a different quest for meaning, particularly in science fiction and apocalyptic/postapocalyptic films. In many films, this quest evolves into a quest for the transcendent. People contemplate the beginning and the end; they speculate about their origins and their future directions. Postmodern viewers are drawn to the holy, mystical, mythological, and transcendental quests offered in movie theaters. As a result, the film business, which is capitalist in nature, uses this tactic to produce stories that are transcendental, sacred, mythological, mystical, magical, supernatural, and, generally speaking, religious. This essay explores the attempt of postmodern man to use cinema to re-enchant the demystified universe. The postmodern man is tired of extreme rationalism and is on a philosophical quest. The study analyzes five science fiction movies, which are also referred to as apocalyptic movies. These are Avatar (2009), Interstellar (2014), Prometheus (2012), War of the Worlds (2005), and I Am Legend (2007). The article argues that in these movies, post-modern man’s quest for meaning is addressed with some sort of transcendence, his modern identity is developed into a postmodern one, or a postmodern identity is brought forth, and his worries about the end are mostly appeased with a postmodern uncertainty

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Sociological Research on the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Student Preparation and the Development of Film Discourse

Author(s): Olena Shcherbak,Hanna Truba,Nina Filippova,Valentyna Romanets,Serhii Bordeniuk,Rostyslav Shchokin / Language(s): English Issue: 81/2023

This article aims to assess the impact of the pandemic on the education and film industry, specifically focusing on the formation of film discussion. The study examines the peculiarities of the educational process and cinema development trends during the pandemic and quarantine restrictions. The research methodology involves information systematization based on survey results. The study reveals that the majority of respondents perceive the pandemic as having a negative impact on education development, highlighting various challenges associated with distance learning. Additionally, a significant portion of respondents express concerns about the adverse effects of the pandemic on the film industry. The research identifies key development issues in education and the film industry. It suggests that digital advancements offer new opportunities for education development, while considering the changing worldview of the population due to the impact of mass diseases. In terms of film industry development, the study emphasizes the importance of considering economic and resource costs, as well as the need for digitalization during the pandemic. The findings highlight the need for strategic measures to address the challenges faced by the education and film industry during the pandemic. The study underscores the importance of leveraging digital tools and platforms for education and film production. It calls for a comprehensive approach that takes into account the evolving needs and preferences of the population, as well as the economic and resource considerations in the film industry. The research provides insights for policymakers, educators, and filmmakers to navigate the current landscape and make informed decisions to promote sustainable development and growth in these sectors.

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GENRE-STYLE DIVERSITY OF INTERPRETATIONS OF UKRAINIAN CLASSICS’ POETRY IN MUSICAL ART

Author(s): Viktoriia Padalko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2023

The purpose of the article is to reveal a variety of genres and styles, in which musical interpretations of Ukrainian classical poets’ texts appear. The methodology. Due to the specific features of the research, the combination of musicology and literary methods should be involved, as well as general scientific methods. So that, the musical analysis and the observation of stage production take place in direct connection with the features of the literal works and in general sociocultural context. Comparative method has been used to identify the characteristic features of such interpretations in different eras and in the works of different artists. The facts were summarised and structured with the use of the analytical method. Scientific novelty of the work lies in the presenting of the genre-style diversity of musical interpretations of the poetry of Ukrainian classics. Features of most musical works of the modern performers are described for the first time. Conclusions. The poetry of Ukrainian classics has a prominent feature – internal musicality, which up till now makes composers and singers turn to it and create their own new interpretations. This feature helps poetry to appear in the great variety of musical genres: from vocal, for example, song, romance or ballade, to genres that are bound with dance or theatre art, such as musical, mono-play, opera, or ballet. Traditionally, musical interpretations of the poetry were related to classical music. However, musicians’ attitude to the interpretation of the poetry of Ukrainian classics totally changed in the end of the XX century. After Ukraine reached its Independence, such interpretations have done the «break-out» and widened their stylistic paradigm to the great diversity – from academic acoustics to rock, rap core and many other different styles. To present these features, the musical compositions of the duo «Telniuk Sisters», bands «Komu Vnyz», «Plach Yeremii», «Haidamaky», and «Tartak» were used in the research. The article also illustrates the interpretations of the literary heritage of the classics in ballet art, as a vivid example of the fact that not only vocal works are born from the interaction of words and music.

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Pisane ręką nie zwycięzców, a odmieńców

Author(s): Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 32/2022

Review of: Sebastian Jagielskiegi, Przerwane emancypacje. Polityka ekscesu w kinie polskim lat 1968–1982, (Universitas, Kraków 2021).

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Professional and personal self-determination in the conditions of distance learning

Author(s): Sitora Mustafayeva / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

Distance education (DE) has actualized the use of media resources for psychological support for schoolchildren and students. However, career guidance work with high-school-age children in a distance learning environment has not been well addressed in the research to date. This study aims to demonstrate the positive influence of cinema art on the attitudes, views, preferences, and motives of schoolchildren in their career choices. A total of 290 students from a humanitarian technical college participated in the experiment conducted by this study. Based on this study's results, film education's effectiveness in forming the professional and personal self-determination of college students has been empirically confirmed. The study made it possible to analyze the process of professional and personal self-determination of college students, as well as to develop a program contributing to the successful professional and personal self-determination of high-school-age children.

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Heterocosmica на киното

Author(s): Ivan Kolev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The paper argues for the advantages of using the full format of the art form “cinema” over its more abstract version “film”. To this end, the heterocosmic nature of the “moving image” in cinema is pointed out and its aspects are analysed phenomenologically. A phenomenology of the cinema hall, the spectator, the actor, the objects and other pleromatic elements is made.

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The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine

Author(s): Elżbieta Olzacka / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2023

Since the Euromaidan revolution, Ukrainian cinema has been experiencing a renaissance, associated with both the wave of civic and creative activity and the policy of the post-Maidan authorities supporting the film industry. The article analyzes the development of Ukrainian cinema from 2014 to 2019, focusing not only on organizational, institutional, and legal changes but also on the accompanying controversies. It addresses the main socio-political, economic, and cultural factors influencing progress in the number of films produced in Ukraine and their popularization on the domestic and foreign market. The article particularly emphasizes the context of Russian aggression toward Ukraine and the ongoing war in Donbas, as it influences not only the topics taken up by filmmakers but also the priorities of authorities in the field of cultural policy. Cinema has become one of the fronts of the conflict. Thus, the post-Maidan authorities’ concern was both to block Russian content deemed dangerous from the point of view of national security and to produce and promote “Ukrainian-centric” narratives. The last part of the article will discuss the new Ukrainian “patriotic cinema,” supported and subsidized by the state, with a focus on the role it plays in a society experiencing conflict.

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Cosmic Prison Break: From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology

Author(s): Jan A. Kozák / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The article thematically and structurally analyses a group of films usually designated as “gnostic films”. These films share a common ideology as they postulate the existence of two worlds – one illusory and the other true. The hero must escape the false world and reach the true one. As the majority of gnostic films appeared at the turn of the millennium, the article also suggests what contributed to the emergence of these films. As the cosmology of the films bears a close similarity to the cosmology of conspiracy theories, the emergence of the films is shown to be a part of the sociocultural development of the conspiracist mindset entering the mainstream. In the 1990s, conspiracism was out of the closet and gained popularity, but it was not yet perceived as an imminent societal threat and therefore was not a taboo for Hollywood filmmakers. The 1990s were also the decade of a unipolar world order where the absence of an inimical Other engendered anxiety about the system itself, which is reflected in the analysed films.

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Jak Rosja walczy z „tęczową zarazą”, czyli dyskurs anty-queer we współczesnej rosyjskiej przestrzeni kulturowej

Author(s): Anna Świetlik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

This article is an attempt to outline the anti-queer discourse in the contemporary Russian cultural space. The analysis focuses mainly on the film Firebird (Жар-птица), which is a very rare example of queer cinema aimed at a wide Russian audience. In order to indicate the features of the homophobic policy of the authorities towards cultural representations of queer issues, the author references research conducted in the field of social sciences and certain press materials devoted to the premiere of the film. The analysis proves that, despite the intensely promoted (both in political and cultural spheres) anti-homosexual policy, the mass consciousness of the Russian audience was more liberal than it was perceived (at least to a certain extent), and the actions taken by the authorities and politicians did not bring expected results.

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SERIAL JAKO MEDIUM EDUKACYJNE, CZYLI MŁODZIEŻ I RODZINA W SERIALACH „EUFORIA” I „13 POWODÓW”

Author(s): Martyna Płowuszyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 66/2022

Popular culture surrounds us all and becomes an indispensable part of our lives, which is why it is important to conduct research in this field. The article is based on two series dedicated to youth, Euforia and 13 Reasons Why. In this text, I described the educational potential of popular culture, introduced the phenomenon of the series and mentioned these types. Moreover, I included information about what attracts the viewer to this type of audiovisual messages. The dominant topic in this analysis of the series is the intra-family relations of young people. I described parenting styles, relationships in adolescent families, family types, conflict issues in families, and the trust and autonomy of adolescents. The crucial important issue of social, emotional and spiritual orphanage was raised, too.

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REFERENCES OF THE ROMANIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM

Author(s): Raluca Iulia Bancos / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

In the present paper, we aimed to carry out a theoretical study about points of references of the Romanian documentary film in time. We consider this study will be useful to specialized literature, as it helps to better understand eastern documentary film and its specifics and also to documentary producers. In time, Romanian documentary film was used as a scientific tool, informative media product, artistic product or as an ideological instrument. This variety gave documentary filmmakers the opportunity to improve their cinematic style, until nowadays, when we can mention the first Oscar nominations for a Romanian documentary film. When we talk about European cinema, we talk about many ideological influences, but somehow, the Romanian documentary managed to draw its unique path and represent in its images values and facts in our society.

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JEŚĆ CZY NIE JEŚĆ? PYTANIE NASZYCH CZASÓW

Author(s): Dorota Chabrajska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

“To be or not to be – that is the question,” said Hamlet, summing up in his famous monologue the great questions that in the history of mankind have justified the existence of philosophy: those about being and non-being, about cognition and the accompanying reflection and the norm of morality determining the rules of decent conduct. Hamlet's dilemmas turn out to be so universal that they constantly return in various ways in the texts of culture, both in literature or film as well as in the history of ideas, taking the form of both direct and highly indirect references. However, the thought arises that Hamlet's monologue and the famous question would not be possible if it were not for philosophical questions as such, which people - consciously or unconsciously - have been asking since the beginning of time, and which in Western culture were for the first time unequivocally formulated in philosophy. and Greek. The Greeks asked primarily about the principle of reality, about the cause of being as such, about why there is something rather than nothing, and they tried to develop a system explaining the structure of reality, as well as to define the good and the meaning of morally good action.

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Negative Impact of Stardom on Child Artists in the Entertainment Sector

Author(s): SHARVIN VATS,AMIT YADAV / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The last decades of the 20th century saw a dramatic expansion of economic liberalisation in Indian film and television industry. The stellar rise of the business has enticed the youth to engage and utilise this platform to exhibit their creative ability. The rise of young artists appearing on reality television and in feature films has sparked a variety of concerns. The article aims at discussing issue of the negative impacts of stardom on child performers in the entertainment industry, focusing specifically on the violation of their fundamental and other rights because of the nature of the employment in the film and television industry.

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Emancipatorska uloga umetnosti i medija u reprezentaciji traume

Author(s): Mirjana Nikolić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 23/2022

Art and the media have a significant role in the representation of reality, and throughout their history, they have often been a powerful tool for social and political elites to achieve their goals. It is, therefore, not surprising that, during the reign of totalitarian regimes and in crisis social situations, art and the media claim the absolute right to the truth, acting as a means of propaganda, imprinting the desired ideas in the consciousness of citizens as an audience. There are numerous papers in which the capacities of art and media are presented and analyzed, considering their roles in social engagement and manipulation. Starting from the theoretical views of Jacques Rancière (emancipated viewer) and H. M. Enzensberger (emancipatory role of the media), the paper will analyze the cohesion of art and media in the process of representing the past, especially when it is a source of traumatic experiences. The great crisis generated by World War II, and the Holocaust as a product of it, was a generator of a global trauma as well as the source of a series of individual traumas. Through specific examples related to the field of radio drama, movie, and themedia, we will try to re-examine the capacities of art forms and media texts in representing trauma, as well as their ability to bring horrible events from the past to the audience. Does the essence of a work of art represent its capacity to be a transmitter of traumatic experiences or is it a ramp, a border, a line of defense for the audience, considering the fact that, even in its most inherent form, a work of art is more moderate than the reality it refers to? The key case studies in the analysis of the presented hypotheses will be two artistic, media texts, both from 1985: The movie Shaw (by Claude Lanzmann) and the radio drama Searching for Ashes (Djordje Lebovic / Slobodan Boda Markovic)

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(De)instrumentalizacija pušenja u savremenoj vizuelnoj kulturi na primjeru arhetipa buntovnika/buntovnice

Author(s): Nataša Tešanović / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 23/2022

The idea of ‘rebellion/disobedience as an immanence of freedom’ is a frequently used concept in storytelling strategies, whether art, marketing, or political activism. This idea can simultaneously or successively permeate all three areas, which is plastically demonstrated by the example of the rebel archetype. Originally used to advertise cigarette brands by celebrities, the archetype served as a means by which the tobacco industry reached new categories of consumers, who saw smoking as an act of liberation from social restraints and prejudices. By strengthening the so-called health agenda, and especially its use for political purposes, there are many bans on both direct consumption and advertising of cigarettes. Instead of directly promoting brands, the tobacco industry opts for indirectly mediating the act of smoking in visual culture, but this time with the use of narratives with a central rebel figure. By additional labeling and marginalization of smokers in public discourse, which often turns out to be a kind of act of political hypocrisy/screen for numerous undemocratic activities, smoking within the visual culture is increasingly presented as an act of rebellion, that is, a symbol of the struggle against political correctness and law-washed repression. In that context, through the historical presentation of the use of the rebel archetype in visual culture, mainly in movies and TV series, that is, through a descriptive-analytical approach to selected figures of smokers-rebels, within this research we will consider the decades-long symbiosis of the tobacco industry and marketing strategies of storytelling, as well as subversive artistic practices that oppose them. The results of the undertaken research indicate that the (de) instrumentalization of smoking in contemporary visual culture turns out to be a very current topic that pretends to anticipate cultural trends in a way and in ranges that go beyond the act of smoking and its direct implications.

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აუდიო- ვიზუალური ხელოვნების ენა და ისტორიის ინტერპრეტაცია (,,დიდებული საუკუნის“ მიხედვით)

Author(s): Nino Gelovani / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 8/2022

Visual storytelling of history involves a complex and multifaceted process. The historical drama "Magnificent Century" on television uses social and political allusions drawn from sources that describe and recall particular situational scenarios to sum up or represent the events of the time, the constructivist version of the series, on the other hand, calls into question the accuracy of historical facts and their cultural setting. Historical movies have a big impact on how people see historical events and facts. In film episodes, historical periods or figures are dramaturgically at the center of events, and from a new (fictional) reality, the spectator is pushed to the point of attack (climax), to make the tale more engaging. This is similar to how historians recreate the past via written words. We will attempt to present a broad overview of the interpretations of the historical narratives provided to the public by the series' creative team in this article based on the resources we have gathered and examined. The primary question is, "How is it created?" and "How is the narrative's modelled in the visual?" It is a work of art, as emphasized by the series' screenwriter Meral Okay and producer Timur Savji, yet it deals with the portrayal of historical individuals. According to the outcomes of exhibiting the image, the line between historical fact and fiction was not particularly clear to the TV viewers.

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Kronika kulturnih događanja u Mostaru, travanj – srpanj 2023.

Author(s): Mira Pehar / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 131-132/2023

Kronika kulturnih događanja u Mostaru, travanj – srpanj 2023. / Chronicle of cultural events in Mostar, April - July 2023.

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Cristi Puiu A Hero of Our Time

Author(s): Simber Atay / Language(s): English Issue: 75/2022

Cristi Puiu is one of the exceptional representatives of contemporary cinema as a director, and as well as a screenwriter and actor. He is also one of the precursors of the Romanian New Wave movement. The Romanian New Wave Cinema is one of the most important artistic phenomena of the post-communist era. Cristi Puiu is the owner of many international cinema awards. His latest film, Malmkrog (2020), is a new and original example of cinematographical adaptation. Malmkrog has been adapted from Vladimir Solovyov's War and Christianity Three Conversations (1900). This is a philosophical text, similar to Plato's dialogues; At the same time, it encompasses an evolving global panorama accompanied by historical explanations and political and cultural debates of 19thcentury fin de siѐcle. This study, focuses on Solovyov's identity and oeuvre after briefly introducing Cristi Puiu and his works, and then examines the film Malmkrog with descriptive method.

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Historia społeczna PRL filmem pisana. Kilka uwag na marginesie monografi i Doroty Skotarczak, Stanisław Bareja. Jego czasy i filmy

Author(s): Radoslaw Domke / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The text discusses Dorota Skotarczak’s 2022 academic publication, entitled Stanisław Bareja. Jego czasy i fi lmy [Stanisław Bareja. His Times and Films]. The author of the review article placed his study in the context of the history of People’s Poland.

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