Levchenko N.V. Cinematography in the regions of the Russian Federation: Soviet film studios and current state. Sociology. 2023. No. 5. Pp. 183-194.

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Abstract

The subject of the study is regional cinematography. The article provides a brief overview of the activities of film studios created in the Soviet era. The research was aimed at studying the specifics of both a number of films of regional Soviet film studios and modern author's cinema. The main films of the directors were selected and analyzed, and media publications and reviews by journalists devoted to this topic were analyzed. Using the example of the Sverdlovsk Film Studio, the peculiarities of the functioning of major Soviet film studios that have survived to the present day are revealed. As the analysis of scientific literature has shown, cinematography is considered from different angles. Representatives of the semiotic approach analyzed films as sign systems, the hermeneutic approach is based on the visual representation and interpretation of various images in films, in the discourse analysis the meaning of the work depends on the interpreters. At the same time, to date, scholarly works devoted to contemporary regional cinema tend to focus on the development of certain local ethnic cinemas. At the same time, there has been insufficient attention paid to studies concerning the development of regional cinematography, as well as to comparative analysis of cinematography in different regions. The main conclusions of the study are that most Soviet regional film studios have now either ceased operations or focus primarily on documentaries. As a result of political, economic, cultural, and social transformations, Soviet film art ceases to exist as a mass phenomenon and is actively developing in Russia's regions. It is shown how through regional films filmmakers cover such topics as: disclosure of historical events, social problems of city and village residents, peculiarities of local folklore.