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The development looks at time as an element of Paolo Genovese’s stylistics in the books “Super Heroes” and “The First Day of My Life” and their film adaptations. A parallel is drawn between its fictional and cinematic representation.
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Adhering to Roland Barthes’ thesis that watching a film is an entirely projective activity and a key to the darkest forces in the viewer, I decided to put together the puzzle of melancholy and mourning in the film “The Banshees of Inisherin” by the director and screenwriter Martin McDonough. This surreal picture that emerged is a collection of pieces from the Irish filmmaker’s previous four films, as well as an update of his own dramaturgical canon, which shape his specific language and culture of communication.
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The text traces the difficult process of creating the film “Stalker” from the point of view of the creative searches of its director Andrei Tarkovsky and the transformations that he and the screenwriters of the film, the Strugatsky brothers, went through. This process is interesting, as through it one can trace the attitude of Tarkovsky and the change of the material from the story “Picnic by the road”. The present text starts from the differences between the main characters in the story and the film, from the different points of departure on which they lean, to defend the thesis that the image of the Stalker from the film is contained in the image of Redrir Schuhart from the novel and can be spoken of evolutionary development of one image into another. The end of the text offers a commentary on the story in the context of today’s political situation in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
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The current article aims to extend Alison Landsberg’s analysis of the movie “Total Recall” by confronting her position with the arguments made by its literary source while extending her observation to Len Wiseman’s remake of the same name. The comparative reading of the three works of fiction should shed further light on the role of synthetic memory and its actual relation to authenticity.
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The text draws a comparison between Don DeLillo’s novel “White Noise” and Noah Baumbach’s film of the same name. The analysis places an emphasis on the divergence of temporal structures in the film and in the novel, on the different interpretations of cultural signs in them and on the unequal communication of the two works with non-fictional reality. If Don DeLillo’s novel “White Noise” is read as a critique of culture and has a dystopian perspective, Baumbach’s film is focused on the subject’s experience and increasingly looks like a mirror of today’s reality.
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The novel „The Sleeping Man” is a novel about a person, about a new world in the world. A story that reveals a life while hiding it. A series of emotionless emotions that confuse, soothe, sometimes tense, then smile and sadden all at the same time. An endless spiral that leads backwards, forwards, nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Yes, the Sleeping man is awake.
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The article focuses on the representations of masculinity in the film “Beau travail” (France, 1999), directed by Claire Denis, with a special attention to the male body as a pivotal element of the film’s imagery. The analysis aims to explore masculinity, taking into account the postcolonial condition, which implies a substantial reconfiguration of gender roles within a new geopolitical and axiological paradigm.
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In each period of the development of the flute art, the evolution of the instrument is determined by the creative searches of composers and performers, by the daring and experiments of masters and constructors in the pursuit of achieving a quality adequate to the requirements of the time. The refinement of the instrument through the 19th century leading to the characteristics of the modern flute is followed. The main credit for the modernization of the instrument goes to the Bavarian flautist and composer Theobald Boehm, whose revolutionary reform aimed to improve the mechanics and remove the shortcomings of the flute. Innovations are also considered, contributions of flute masters from various national schools such as A. Buffet, L. Dorus, G. Brichialdi, L. Lot, etc.
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The article introduces the views of Prof. Peter Feuchtwanger (1930 – 2016) regarding the correct posture for playing the piano and the causes that lead to the appearance of specific diseases in the hands and back. To overcome these problems, Feuchtwanger created his own pedagogical methods and technical exercises, using non-standard fingering, the natural weight of the hand and the feedback energy of the keyboard.
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The article gives a vision to motivation for being music teacher in time of variable work, social and living environment.
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Thanks to my many years of practice, as well as extensive research, analysis, induction and comparison, I have come to the conclusion that Pinyin is the bridge between Chinese and Italian. As the two languages have many similarities, we can use the Italian scientific method of singing to sing in Chinese as well, using pinyin according to the melody. This article discusses the origins of consonants in the Chinese Pinyin and Italian alphabets, and many of the consonant pronunciation positions, pronunciation methods, and production sounds that are often the same or similar.
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This paper aims to examine the specifics of working on a poetic text with children’s and youth choirs regarding the musical interpretation of a piece. Working on the lyrics has two aspects - the children’s emotional experience with the meaning of the lyrics and the delivery of the intention behind the words to the listeners, determined by achieving clear diction and articulation. Accordingly, methods and approaches for reaching those objectives are presented, and the peculiarities of working on foreign language lyrics are mentioned.
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The establishment after 1919 and the rise of professional music schools in China steered violin training in the right direction. This article presents a selection of four representative institutions that show the process of building and some of the achievements of early violin education in the country and have reference value to the future promotion and development of the instrument.
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The article examines the influences as well as causes and the process in the formation of a choro found in the town of Taraklia, the village of Kairaklia, the town of Tvarditsa and the village of Korten; compares and analyzes the specific dance vocabulary of the considered dance in all its variants.
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Early years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China are a stage of study and growth in the development of Chinese theory of piano teaching, as well as the most decisive stage for the development of Chinese theory of piano learning.They are mainly reflected in the following three aspects: First, the main teachers from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Central Conservatory of Music and the Soviet Piano Experts form the core of the faculty of piano teaching in China. Second, Chinese pianists have a good audio profile in the world piano competitions. Third, Chinese pianists are gradually exploring the theory of teaching piano with Chinese characteristics.
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Art criticism has the privilege of being part of all the transformations in the history of Bulgarian art, with its role in the avant-garde situation in the 1990s being particularly significant, which left a lasting impression of its usefulness and necessity for the world of contemporary art. Over the past ten years, critical writing has progressively declined until the last dedicated portal for criticism has disappeared, and this circumstance has given rise to disturbing articles and questions in the public domain such as Where is criticism today?. Numerous attempts have been made to revive it, and the results have shown that not every generation is privileged to participate in a revolution, and not every decade gives rise to the writing of heroic criticism. For this reason, its temporary attenuation is not necessarily a cause for alarm—on the contrary. The self-serving writing and artificial motivation of criticism in recent years have left a more troubling sense of unprofessionalism, naivety, and illegitimate subjectivism in an age that rejects rigid norms and rules about good art. On the one hand, this ultra-democratic nature provoked dissatisfaction from connoisseurs of critical thought, but on the other hand, it placed the artist in the most liberal regional artistic situation of the last hundred years. The text analyzes the typology of contemporary art criticism, the factors contributing to its decline, and the possibilities for its legitimate emergence.
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Merleau-Ponty, starting from perception, reaches the visual through the work of Cézanne. The article applies the phenomenologist's essay to demonstrate how unfounded Cézanne's doubt was about his creative potential and the general change in art caused by him.
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The article presents an attempt to search for a different path to a philosophy of Byzantine iconography, which, through the construct of virtual transcendentalism, heuristically allows to understand the icon as a poster of the logos development of Byzantine doctrinal thought in the context of the logos development of European philosophy, summarized by the concept of logodynamism (a new term introduced by the author), which embeds medieval Christian thought in the logos environment from Heraclitus, Parmenides through Plato and Aristotle to modern European philosophy and enables the search for modern ways of understanding Christian phenomena, such as Byzantine iconography. The article brings out the connection of the icon with the archetypal and contemporary forms of the poster through the idea of message and image as a cultural phenomenon and thus achieves a different ontological status for the icon, making sense of its positioning in the contemporary cultural environment.
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This paper aims to emphasize the importance and possibility of correlating the Fine arts and Serbian language courses in the first cycle of primary education. The correlation between these two courses would bring more durable knowledge and faster acquisition of the learning material, and the teaching process would cease to be traditional and monotonous, and become more contemporary and more interesting to students. This paper discusses the positive effects of linking the Fine arts and Serbian language courses, and provides a concrete example for the application of correlation when teaching fables. The benefits of expressing the fable experience through illustration, and the importance of children's art work have been pointed out.
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Starting from the facts that show that choral singing provides multiple benefits in terms of general development of children, as well as that it is necessary to build a musically stimulating environment within primary school, the purpose of this paper is to present a model of working with choir made of the younger grades. Besides that, this paper provides concrete practical examples of choral teaching that will contribute to the better realization of the necessary elements of each choral work, such as audition, selection of compositions for work, methodical procedure of learning a new song, proper breathing, vocal warm-up and public performance. Each of these segments are very complex and demanding. We would like to emphasize that the model of working with the choir of the younger grades of primary school and its practical application, which we present, is the result of the content analysis provided by the previously consulted literature. The model provides concrete suggestions in working with pupils in choir classes. We believe that this work will be especially important for teachers who work, not only with the choir made of younger grades, but also with the class choir in order to discover new ways of artistic work. This model is just one of many possible aspects of the realization of choral teaching that relies on the recommendations discussed in the professional literature. We can expect the successful realization of the selected program only with a systematic and creative approach in choral work.
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