Modern Russian cinema and TV screen: new/old heroes
We are glad to inform you that the St Petersburg University Representative Office in Italy and the University for Foreigners of Siena will hold online lectures by Liubov Bugaeva. The event is scheduled for 6pm (Moscow time) on 5 May 2023. It is part of the joint project of online seminars between the St Petersburg University Representative Office in Italy and the University for Foreigners of Siena.
The lecture focuses on the ideas about the subject in Soviet and modern Russian visual culture. The hero in a totalitarian culture is "the central actor of totalitarian myths", presented "in the image of the builder of a new life and the winner of all obstacles and any enemies" (G. Günther). What are the myths and ideas where the hero of the modern film and television screen is the hero? Can such mythologemes as "new man", "new hero" be applied to the hero? The lecture will outline the trajectory of the development of modern cinema, the elements of cultural recycling, and approaches to creating a new character. It also features significant films and television series that are considered in the context of a specific socio-cultural situation.
Lecturer
Liubov Bugaeva is Doctor of Philology and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philology at St Petersburg University. She is the founder and head of the section "Cinema/Text" at the annual international conference at the Faculty of Philology at St Petersburg University. She is author of about 200 publications, including the monograph "Literatura i rite de passage" (St Petersburg: Petropolis, 2010). She is also a member of the editorial board of the journals "International Journal of Cultural Studies", "Human Affairs", "Pragmatism Today", and "Professorial Journal". Her research interests include cognitive narratology, literary theory, literary anthropology, Russian literature of the 20th—21st centuries, film studies, film text, cognitive film studies, neurocinema, enactive media, and pragmatism.