Gritsai L.
Abstract. The article examines the processes of deconstruction of social myths in the film culture of the late Soviet period, understood because of the crisis of the Soviet symbolic system that became particularly evident in Soviet cinema of the 1980s. Drawing on the semiotic approach of Roland Barthes, the study analyzes the artistic mechanisms involved in the deconstruction of the myths of a bright future, sacred political power, the new Soviet man, and a victorious history. The analysis demonstrates that late Soviet cinema not only reflected the crisis of official ideology but also acted as an independent factor in the transformation of public consciousness by developing new ways of interpreting historical experience and cultural identity.
Key words: social myth, film culture, Soviet cinema, deconstruction of myth, semiotics, cultural memory, symbolic space, cultural crisis.
Gritsai Lyudmila Alexandrovna,
D. in Pedagogy, Associate professor,
Yaroslavl State Pedagogical
University named after K.D. Ushinsky (Yaroslavl)
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