“MALE ISSUE” IN THE WORKS OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Khitruk E.B.

DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2017-2-146-154

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Khitruk Ekaterina B. National Research Tomsk State University, Russia. E-mail: lubomudr@vtomske.ru

This article explores the “male theme” in the works of Andrei Tarkovsky. Special attention is paid to the formulation of the problem of loss of male intergenerational communication in the film “The Steamroller and the Violin”. The conclusion is that immersion of boys in a “female” environment due to the feminization of education and the trend of the “loss of the father” in modern society leads to considerable complication of the process of male socialization. Feature film “The Steamroller and the Violin” is considered in the article as one of the first attempts in the art of meaningful approach to the production of “male issue” in modern society. This artistic interpretation of the issue of the loss of male intergenerational communication advocates a kind of prelude to the emergence of contemporary interdisciplinary field of social science – “men’s studies”.

Keywords: Andrei Tarkovsky, men’s studies, fatherhood, boy, man

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Issue: 2, 2017

Series of issue: Issue 2

Rubric: ARTICLES

Pages: 146 — 154

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