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PROJECTS Challenging Problems of Contemporary Cinema Studies (2005-...) Head of the project: Dr. Natalia N. Samutina

 

The project is aimed at elaboration of theoretical and methodological issues concerning the existence and transformations of cinema in contemporary world, such as: 

  • cinema media specificity;
  • particular qualities of film production, distribution and reception in different historical and cultural contexts;
  • possibilities of representation and translation of cultural norms and values in different cinematographic models;
  • problems of interrelations of cinema and literature, cinema and historical narratives;
  • specificity and cultural functions of cinematographic genres;
  • base and changing dispositions of viewers’ reception;
  • possibilities to theorise new types of cinematic imagery, and so on.

Taking into consideration the underdevelopment of cinema studies in Russia, the project tries to perform some closely connected tasks: 

  • to build some space for discussions in Russian about cinema studies’ issues;
  • to compare methodological approaches to research on cinema, such as cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, cultural anthropology, semiotics, psychoanalysis;
  • translation into Russian theoretical texts on cinema;
  • teaching courses on cinema, organization of seminars and conferences for students in order to encourage them to study cinema and use cinema in interdisciplinary studies.

The project is undertaken in constructive cooperation with “New Literary Rewiew” Publishing House.
 

Main publications:

  • Books

Samutina N. V. (ed.). Science-Fiction Cinema. Episode One
Fantasticheskoe kino. Epizod pervyj. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Aronson O. Communicative image (Cinema. Literature. Philosophy)
Kommunikativnyj obraz (Kino. Literatura. Filisofia). M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2007.

Zhezhelenko M., Roginsky B. The World of Alfred Hitchcock
Mir Alfreda Hitchcocka. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Plahov A., Plahova E. Aki Kaurismaki: the Last Romantic
Aki Kaurismaki: Posledny romantik. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Bulgakova O. The Factory of Gestures
Fabrika zhestov. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005.

 

  • Articles

Samutina N. Theory, History and the Attractions: Early Cinema and New Media
Teoriya, istoriya, attraktsiony: rannee kino i novyje media // "Gumanitarnye issledovanija" (IGITI GU-VShE), 2009. Vyp. 7.

Samutina N. More films sweded! Cult movies and their untipical spectator
Za protsvetaniye Shvedii: kultovoye kino i ego nestandartny zritel // «Neprikosnovennyy zapas». 2008. №6 (62).

Samutina N. V. "Cult Camp Classics": Norms and Strategies of Reception in Cinema
“Cult Camp Classics”: spetsifika normativnosti i strategii zritelskogo vosprijatija v kinematidrafe // "Gumanitarnye issledovanija" (IGITI GU-VShE), 2008. Vyp. 1 (31). 44 s.

Kaspe, Irina M. Manuscripts Are Kept Forever: Televised Series and Literature // "Russian Studies in Literature". 2007. vol. 43, no. 4. pp. 17-39.

Samutina N. V. Ideology of Nostalgia: Problem of the Past in Contemporary European Cinema
Ideologia nostalgii: problema proshlogo v sovremennom evropeyskom kino // "Gumanitarnye issledovanija". M.: GU-VSHEH, 2007.

Samutina N. V. Contemporary theories of cinephilia and reader/spectator in new media
Sovremennye koncepcii sinephilii i chitatel/zritel v aktualnoy media-srede // Inostrannaya literatura. 2008. № 9.

Samutina N. V. Science Fiction Cinema and the Problem of “Otherness”
Fantasticheskoye kino i problema inogo // Fantasticheskoe kino. Epizod pervyj / Red. N. V. Samutina. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Filippov A. F. A Revolt of the Cartesians: Toward a Sociological Analysis of "Blade Runner"
Bunt karteziantsev: k sotsiologicheskomy analizu filma “"Blade Runner" // Fantasticheskoe kino. Epizod pervyj / Red. N. V. Samutina. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Zenkin S. Effect of “Fantastic” in Cinema
Effect fantastiki v kino. Fantasticheskoe kino. Epizod pervyj / Red. N. V. Samutina. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Dashkova T., Stepanov B. Science Fiction in “Soliaris” and “Stalker” by Andrey Tarkovsky
Fantastika v “Soliarise” and “Stalkere” // Fantasticheskoe kino. Epizod pervyj / Red. N. V. Samutina. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.

Samutina N. V. Melies is Still Alive, or The Magic of Translation
Melies zhiv, ili magia perevoda // "Sinij divan", 2005, № 7.

Samutina N. V. Aventures of the Genre on the Russian Roads
Priklucheniya zhanra na rossijskih dorogah //"Istorik i khudozhnik", 2005, № 3.

Samutina N. V. Contemporary European Cinema and the Idea of Culture (of the "Past")
Sovremennoje evropejskoje kino i ideia kultury // Fenomen proshlogo / Red. I. M. Savelieva, A. V. Poletayev. M.: GU-VShE, 2005, s. 337-366.