The culture of the authorʾs image in modern cinema texts

Abstract

The article substantiates the culture of the author's image in the screen arts, defines cultural approaches to the study of the figure of the director-author in modern author's and mainstream film texts. The researcher uses analytical and systematic methods in their unity, which makes it possible to study the cultural aspect of the problem. Historical and complex approaches to the study of the author's cinematography and the image of the author in the screen arts are applied. In the development of the topic, a cultural approach was used to interpret the peculiarities of the presentation of the culture of the author's image on the screen plane. The research used an interdisciplinary approach, the basis of which was general scientific theoretical methods: induction, deduction, complex cultural analysis, synthesis.

The scientific novelty of the research is the study of the culture of the author's image (represented in the worldview directorial models of European countries and the USA) as a social value, which is aimed at the general public, as well as at the individual personal perception of the recipient. The culture of the author's image can be traced through the interrelationship of screen arts and literature, as well as visual arts. The culture of the author's image is considered, in particular, on the example of the work of such Hollywood directors as V. Allen, T. Burton, F.F. Coppola, A. Hitchcock, M. Scorsese, M. Forman, D. Lynch, S. Spielberg, K. Tarantino, who made a significant creative contribution to the film culture of the USA, producing author's film texts. The article highlights and correlates the common and distinctive features of the director-author as a real person with the features of the created image of the screen author. The article substantiates the collective nature of authorship in screen arts. It is proven that modern filmmaking involves new cultural approaches to identifying the author's image on the screen and is revealed at the script level. It is emphasized that in the analysis of the author's image in the screen arts, it is necessary to take into account the creation of an artistic image in the individual creativity of the members of the film crew (cameraman, artist, composer, sound engineer). The researcher analyzes the essence of cultural representation of the author's image through the cameo. The researcher observes that the author-director tries to communicate with the viewer, strives to update the screen language and in this way represents his own unique individuality. It turns out that the image of the author in screen art is expressed through: presentation to the viewer of his own production palette; a score of visual arts typical for the director; the author's idea, which originates in the worldview of the artist.