THE PHILOSOPHY OF SEARCH AND REALIZATION OF A RUSSIAN MIRACLE IN THE FILM BY DANIIL ZINCHENKO «THE ELIXIR»
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2018-2-151-174
The article reveals the peculiarities of modern Russian cinema, allowing it to be a specific form of philosophical and visual-anthropological national self-knowledge. The main intellectual, emotional and spiritual features of the Russian mentality are studied by means of the artistic and visual material of D. Zinchenko’s film «Elixir». As the key elements of the Russian national thinking and behavior, the authors emphasize the desire of material miracle, belief in finding the wanted by embodying spiritual values and ideas into material objects. The article notes romanticism, focus on high moral ideals, neglect of material goods, mystical hope of fate, appeal to God, peculiar to the Russian soul and character. The problem of genre of Daniil Zinchenko’s film is analized, the analysis shows its narrative structures and demonstrates elements of intertextuality – quotation, allusion, reminiscence.The authors examine in detail the specifics of the visual language and symbols of «Elixir», its mythological motifs, archetypal images, discourse of «texts in the text».
Keywords: visual anthropology, semiotics of cinema, Russian studies, national self-knowledge, the mentality, Daniil Zinchenko, «Elixir», realogy, wonder, search
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Issue: 2, 2018
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: ARTICLES
Pages: 151 — 174
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