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Obrazy Velikogo Razryva

Kino v Kontekste Smeny Kul`turnykh Tsiklov

This monograph by a well known historian of culture studies cinema in the context of the transition of cultural cycles. By the transition situation the author means fading away of the culture of the late Middle Ages and the birth of a new cultural alternative. Khrenov illustrates his theses with vast material including both foreign and Russian films. Contents: Artistic experience of the 20th century in the context of transition of cultural cycles; Between the printed book and TV: Esthetic aspects of cinema production; Cinema in a new "Hellenistic" epoch: Crisis of the traditional and forming alternative identity; Through the prism of cinema: The Byzantine tradition in Russian Orthodoxy and its role in supporting of civilizational identity; Actualization of archaic layers of culture in cinema: Cinema as a ritual. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated.