No 2 (2016)
STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF CULTURE
9-16 313
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The article studies a content of complex historical concept “cultural heritage”. The cultural heritage is considered from theoretical perspective as an architectonic of various meaning elements: actual, potential, “dwindling” heritage and heritage “archive”.
17-26 247
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The article analyses the concept of “structure of visions” presented in the book by Jonathan Krary “Techniques of the observer. On vision and modernity in the XIX century” and puts forward a specific version of the evolution in the understanding of the power over the visual unconscious. We are talking about ideas of Béla Balázs, Sergey Eisenstein, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze and about authentic sense of the notion “auteur cinematography”.
STUDIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY
27-39 327
Abstract
The article is focused on the nominations used in old Russian (translated and original) literature for demons and for the description of the fallen angels hierarchy. The article demonstrates the variability and multiplicity of such nominations and also the tradition of euphemistic naming the evil spirits as well as nominations, used in magical texts that were written down in the XVII-XVIII centuries.
The power and culture in Russia in the first quarter of the XVIII: at the origins of cultural policy
40-57 306
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The article is concerned with the interrelation between the culture and power in Russia in the first quarter of the XVIII century and with the emergence of “cultural policy” phenomenon. The principal directions of Peter I cultural policy are analysed.
58-69 303
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This paper describes an essential episode in the history of Russian parks and gardens that is a transformation of the Tsarskoe Selo’s park into the new Soviet public space (the so-called park of culture and leisure) formed during the period of the cultural revolution.The reconstruction and the analysis of the circumstances and the mechanisms of this Sovietisation of the English landscape garden are based on the archive materials, as well as on the periodicals of the early Soviet era.
70-86 264
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The article concerns with transformations in political sphere during early Modern times and related thereto need for the construction of new political discourses. Author analyses the concept of the “friend” and considers the transformations of friendly discourses in the papers of the English Parliament of the XVII century through which the formation of a new political order and the construction of relevant political discourses can be traced.
87-95 325
Abstract
In the paper we are talking about deep-specific attitude towards death in different cultures. This specificity is reflected not only at the level of rites and practices associated with death, but also affects their study. Analysing studies of obituary texts in English and German, the author notes the distinction of research approaches depending on the belonging to a particular cultural locus. American scientists are often within gender studies and media studies, British researchers focus more on sociolinguistics and collective memory, the researchers from Asia and Africa fit well into the post-colonial paradigm, and German-speaking researchers work in the field of comparative study of cultures.
VISUAL STUDIES
96-105 313
Abstract
The article highlights the phenomena of benshi - narrator in early Japanese cinematograph. Special attention is paid to Japanese silent movies show peculiarities.
106-119 335
Abstract
Studies of modern theatre pay special attention to the description of how activate the spectator as an acting subject and as a co-creator. In this context, theorists are interested primarily in the performative aspect, related to the corporeality of actors and the audience, and to the changes of theatrical communication conditions. This article focuses on the formation of meaning as the complex process that promotes spectator involvement and, in particular, on how “open” theatre works construct spectator activity. At the same time semiotic and performative aspects of the stage play are not opposed to the hard-line stance. As an example the play “Staircase” of the theatre “Near the house of Stanislavsky” is selected.
STUDIES OF SUBCULTURES
120-135 405
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The present article tracks the shift in analytical language of subculture studies within the context of social transformation and development from modern to postmodern era. The three successive approaches to definition of subculture (as deviation, as resistance, as consumption) are distinguished and compared. This shift is considered as a consequence of significant socio-cultural transformations -the errosion of class structure and weakening of homogenous mass culture hegemony.
136-147 231
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The article analyses specifics of various mobile telephony services usage by the example of Koksovoe village in Rostov region. It considers the developments and distinctions in urban and country styles of communication over the new technologies. Presented data of empirical research conducted in rural settlements of Rostov region became the basis for compiling consumer typology.
148-157 599
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the analysis of a category “status” and its explicit and implicit representation in common practices among Russian social media users as well as to the description of demanded strategies of its visual and verbal representation.
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