Twentieth-century Film Melodrama and Trophy Films: Screen Discourse

Abstract

The interests of the author of these monographs are not limited to cinema. Ipolyt Zborovets is a historian of theatre, literature and author of relevant thematic monographs: “Myron Stepnyak: a Biography in the Poet's Poems” (2012), “The Theatre Arts of Fiction” (2013), “The Fate of Ukrainian Linguist Vasyl Zborovets”, “Plots for Theatre, Cinema and Television” (2014), “Oleksandra Montvid at the Kharkiv Institute of Noble Maidens'' (2015), “Myron Stepniak's Loneliness” (2015) and others. However, the author became interested in cinema since childhood, when he was still a boy fascinated by the “magic” of cinema. He viewed his favourite films, collected footage, and studied various films' structures dozens of times. In his monographs, the author not only analyses multiple aspects of the film process but also relies heavily on his own impressions.