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Семиотика дома в фильме Сергея Герасимова «Журналист» (1967)
The semiotics of home in the Sergey Gerasimov’s film Journalist (1967)

Author(s): Nataliya Nyagolova
Subject(s): Cultural history, Poetry, Semiology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Hermeneutics
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: semiotics; topos; Khrushchev's Thaw; mythopoetics; socialist realism;

Summary/Abstract: The article offers observations on the semiotic projections of home in Sergey Gerasimov’s film Journalist (1967). The paper studies the models of socialist realism canon, the poetics of Khrushchev's Thaw, the mythopoetic tradition, and the author’s original approach in constructing the topos of home. The author outlines the connection of cinematic narrative with the sociocultural processes of the 1960s in the Soviet and pan-European context.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 75-80
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian