Title: Шекспир в отечественном кинематографе и на телевидении: национальное и глобальное
Abstract:The paper covers a special role of Shakespeare as a constant of Russian culture on national screen and television. The author examines a number of phenomena of contemporary Russian screen culture that...The paper covers a special role of Shakespeare as a constant of Russian culture on national screen and television. The author examines a number of phenomena of contemporary Russian screen culture that somehow adapt and/or reference W. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and “Othello” in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The author analyzes black comedy “Playing the Victim” (dir. K.S. Serebrennikov) with some obvious and cryptic allusions to “Hamlet”, a modern adaptation of the great Shakespearean tragedy “Hamlet 21st Century” (dir. Yu.V. Kara), two episodes of children’s comedy TV show “Yeralash” which allude to “Othello”, episode 10 “Hamlet, Prince of Dacha” in comedy TV series “33 Square Meters” as well as an example of modern political satire — an episode of Russian TV show “Puppets” that depicts Boris Yeltsin in the ‘situation’ of Hamlet. The author considers some cultural tendencies and the correlation between the national and global in the context of the reception of Shakespeare and his works on contemporary Russian film and television. In his opinion, the national is represented more and more often only on the verbal level, and the global is reflected usually on the visual level. The examples presented give yet more proof that Shakespeare’s legacy is still a ‘mirror’ of Russian culture where we can see both problems it faces during unstable periods of changes and its specific traditions.Read More