title: Traditions of classical literature in the film “Brother” by Alexei Balabanov
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metadata.value: Baranov, Dmitry K.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-10T10:53:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-10T10:53:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Baranov D. K. Traditions of classical literature in the film “Brother” by Alexei Balabanov. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (2): 194–216. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.201 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44179
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Alexei Balabanov’s film “Brother” is an integral part of modern Russian culture. An analysis
  of the audience’s reception of the film suggests that “Brother” is not just a mass action movie.
  A close look reveals that Balabanov’s film combines elements of pop-culture product and intellectual
  cinema. The article for the first time offers a holistic analysis of the film “Brother”.
  Balabanov uses a complex system of repetitions at the level of a phrase, visual image, situation.
  This allows the author to build a complicated system of motifs that are associated with some
  literary traditions of classical literature. We are talking primarily about the tradition of the
  Petersburg text and about a complex of themes and plots that go back to romanticism. The
  angle from which one should look at the film is indicated by the introduction of an important
  character named Hoffmann, who warns the protagonist that the city is a terrible force. Motive
  analysis and intertextual analysis leads to the following conclusions. The plot of “Brother” can
  be read as a story about a young man Danila, who betrays his ideal (love of music), unable to
  withstand the temptation of money and power, and pays for this: he turns into his evil doppelganger
  — his brother Victor. The plot, seemingly tied to a specific socio-historical reality,
  turns into a potentially eternal plot about a confused romantic hero who changes his ideals
  after falling into the mythologized space of St Petersburg that fools him.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared within the framework of the grant: Russian Science Foundation no. 21-18-
  00527 “Literature of ‘transitional eras’ as a tool for the modernization of social ties”, 2021–2023, supervisor
  V. E. Bagno.
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
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “Brother” by Alexei Balabanov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intertextuality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: motif analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Petersburg text
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: romanticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Traditions of classical literature in the film “Brother” by Alexei Balabanov
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metadata.value: Article
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