«SOVIET PRODUCTION FILM» AS GENRE PHENOMENON OF THE SOVIET CINEMA OF THE 1970S: CINEMATOGRAPHY SPECIFICS AND FORMAL FEATURES

Abstract

«Soviet production film» - unique genre phenomenon of the Soviet cinema of the 1970th years which emergence has been caused by the cinema tradition of reflection of a labor subject originating in the 1920th years on the Soviet screen, and also socio-cultural realities of the time: the declared era of scientific and technical revolution, blossoming of production dramatic art, strengthening of ideological control over cinema. Relying on ideas of the Russian formal school in the film theory (Yu. Tynyanov, V. Shklovsky, B. Eykhenbaum), the film genres which have designated fundamental problems of studying, and also on provisions of the genre film study which has developed ideas of the Russian formalists, article pursues attempt to designate structural-semantic features of soviet production film. Existence of steady ways of cinematography decisions, an setting, an iconography, musical and sound design, significant types of characters and actor's roles, models of plots and the general ideological and thematic context connected with the social and economic and industrial sphere of life of the Soviet society allows to tell about actually cinema specifics of «soviet production film» as film genre.