An Old Myth in the New Version. Russian Cinematograpy in the Face of Identity Crisis
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In the article, the author focuses on the cinema on the imperial past of Russia, which in the 21st century is actively supported by the current authorities of this country. In the first part of the text the author refers to film examples from the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century referring to the imperial theme, proving that the medium of film has gradually become an instrument of Russian historical policy, which boils down to rebuilding the myth of “Great Russia”. The intensifying imperialist tendencies are a symptom of an ideological and identity crisis that has been updated during the political transformation in the early 1990s and continues in a modified form to this day. The second part of the text is the analysis of the reception of the film Mathilde (dir. Aleksey Uchitel, 2017). The reaction of representatives of the authorities and part of Russian society to this film testifies to the crisis of Russian ideology and the spread of autocracy, which in the future may lead to the dismantling of the Russian state.
Keywords:
Russian Cinema, identity crisisReferences
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Ilya Tsibetstibchik@tut.by
University of Łódź Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6056-0673
Studiuje kulturoznawstwo na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim. Zajmuje się problematyką historyczną we współczesnej kulturze audiowizualnej Rosji, a także społeczno-kulturowymi oraz historycznymi zagadnieniami dotyczącymi szeroko pojętej Europy Wschodniej.
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