This book is a theoretical study of contemporary film art in terms of the structure of the film and at the same time, is an attempt to establish the term "polyphony" as a key to in-depth understanding of cinema. The book is based on author's PhD thesis in All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S.Gerasimov. Then, in 1998, the thesis was titled "polyphony as the semantic structure of a narrative cinema." For this edition some errors about facts and typing mistakes were corrected. This work will be interesting to researchers and lovers of film art, including those who wish to...

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) was a tragic figure with an unique artistic talent representing Fin de siecle of the Imperial Russia. This Full-length novel is depicting the lone painter's life, beginning from his youth, too late glory and up to the tragic last years, like a mosaic in the background of upheaval of the Russian history of his time. Based on the historical and biographical facts, the author sometimes imagines the inner worlds of many characters, making a large group portrait of artists and musicians representing the Russian culture of the last 2 decades of the 19th...

The conceptual model of a film culture presented in this book, was born in the process of the author's studying the modern Russian cinema since perestroika from the need to describe the process of its decline and rebirth during the same period. (......) It can explain to a large extent also the formation and development of cinema as a cultural institution including the audience, the film policy, the film education and the various discourses about cinema. In other words, by using this conceptual model, the phenomenon of cinema as a whole that cannot be comprehended by the existing...