Open AccessScreen Сodes of Moscow
Author(s) -
Nina A. Boyarshinova
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-6-97-101
Subject(s) - capital (architecture) , capital city , ode , key (lock) , art history , literature , art , visual arts , geography , economic geography , computer science , computer security
Examines the melodrama film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” by film director Vladimir Menshov which is one of the most significant and successful Soviet movies of the 1970s. The author analyses the imagery of the film that vicariously represents the image of metropolis using a method of formula analysis proposed by John G. Cawelti. It is assumed that there is a sustainable melodrama structure that was borrowed from the literary texts connected to the Russian capital. Menshov’s picture was chosen as a bright example of “Moscow melodrama” representing Moscow as the city of trial and exploring the key concept Moscow Home.