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Название журнала на английском
ISSN 2500-0802
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THE THEORY OF MATERNAL BY JULIA KRISTEVA AS A STRATEGY FOR ANALYSIS OF FEMINITY IN THE CINEMA

Glushneva Y.D. 1
1 FSAI HPE «Siberian Federal University»
The article is devoted to the theory of maternal by French philosopher J. Kristeva and the potentials of its application to research of representations of femininity in the cinema. The relevance of this paper is due to the necessity to develop the theoretical and methodological program in the feminist film criticism of our country, which has primarily a descriptive nature. The analysis of the functioning mechanisms of the cinema as a cultural and symbolic practice in their correlation with the concept of J. Kristeva is given in this article. The research specificity of applying the theory of maternal in film studies is considered in the paper. The significance of the reception J. Kristeva’s approach for analysis Russian films is substantiated within the bounds of the present study. For this purpose, the attempt was made to emphasize main peculiarities of maternal discourse in Russian culture, which the cinema articulates, as well as to identify new tendencies of representation of feminine/maternal in Russian cinema.