title: Two documentary tales of “Ukrainian revolution”
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metadata.value: Comuzzi, Ludmila V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-05T15:05:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-05T15:05:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Comuzzi L. V. Two documentary tales of “Ukrainian revolution”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 2018, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 236–251.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2018.207
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14770
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The primary purpose of the article is to demonstrate the expediency of applying the categories
  of narrative theory, namely, point of view, focalization, and frame, to the analysis of documentary
  films. The article approaches narrative journalism as a relatively new field of research and
  practice, defines the concept of publicist narrative documentary and the importance of the
  three narrative categories named above for its production and perception. On the practical
  side we analyze two recent documentaries about the events of the 2013–2014 Euromaidan.
  The analysis aims to show how these documentaries construct different types of frames, points
  of view and techniques of focalization to convey conflicting tales about the same historical
  event — the “Ukrainian revolution”. In Sergey Loznitsa’s “Maidan” the static camera, unaccompanied
  by a narrator’s voice, generates a slow, epic rhythm of cinematic narration with the
  people of Ukraine as its collective agent. Using Dziga Vertov’s formalist aesthetics Loznitsa
  forms up a story about the heroic people, though the author’s ideological point of view is disguised
  by the seemingly detached kino-eye. Igor Lopatyonok-directed and Oliver Stone-produced
  “Ukraine on Fire” is a publicist narrative presenting Euromaidan not as an expression
  of the people’s free will, but as the result of Washington’s politics. The anticipated perception
  of this ideological stance is secured by a complex meta-frame and the rigorous logic of the
  plot presenting revolutionary events as a consequence of historical events. The dynamics of
  points of view following particular heroes and anti-heroes and the precisely centered focalization
  reinforce the logic of narration, while the voice of the narrator plays the role of its open
  “ideological mouthpiece”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: publicist narrative documentary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: point of view
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: focalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frame
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ukrainian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. Loznitsa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. Lopatyonok
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: O. Stone
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Two documentary tales of “Ukrainian revolution”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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