Vol 22, No 2 (2017)

The materials from the New York University archives as well as the author’s interview with actress Essie Borden who took part in the play, served as the basic data for the presented article, which tells the story of A.P. Chekhov’s Tatyana Repina premiere staged by The Judson Poets’ Theater for the first time. Reverend Al Carmines who was the leading figure in Off-off Broadway movement in the 70-ies and 90ies of the XXth century was the producer of the staging. John Racin’s translation as well as his long term research on Tatyana Repina by A.S. Suvorin and A.P. Chekhov made it possible to show Tatyana Repina to English-speaking public. The full overview of all the newspaper articles dedicated to the pay allowed to draw the conclusion that the staging was well accepted by the contemporaries as an experimental show put together by a group of enthusiasts, but did not get any attention of big theater producers. Themes and problems of the drama were not of any interest for the majority of audience, the play could not be of any commercial value, so the premiere show remained the only one in the USA. The drama plays a very important role in understanding of the creative dialog between A.P. Chek-hov and A.S. Suvorin and understanding of Chekhov’s themes and innovative approaches to playma-king.

The article discusses the historiosophical attitudes of M.A. Voloshin on the future of Russia and on the fate of humanity as a whole. These attitudes were partially inspired by the historical period in which Maximilian Voloshin has lived. The World War I, the terrorism, the Bolshevik Revolution - all of these themes were reflected in the poetry and journalistic creations of the author. The fact that in these years Voloshin was increasingly drawn to the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky - another thinker who considered the question about the sad future of Russia in the period of revolutions and wars - is no less important. The point of intersection between historiosophical attitudes of both thinkers also receive detailed consideration in the text of the article.

The article analyzes the formal-substantive components of the pedagogical novels in Russian literature of the XX century - “The Republic SHKID” by G. Belykh and L. Panteleev, “Pedagogical poem” by A. Makarenko, “School of Dostoevsky” V.N. Soroky-Rosinskiy. The author points to an implicit dialogue between these writers, with the necessity makes the excursions to the more remote past of the Russian literature, to the history and development of pedagogy, discusses about the causes and forms of interaction between pedagogy and literature for children. The subjective and objective preconditions of the formation of different author’s aesthetic and pedagogical concepts are identified.

The article deals with the author’s position in Vladimov’s novel “The General and His Army”, The writer reaches a very high level of artistic evaluation of life, He wants to know the basics of life, to understand the motives of people, what are the reasons for victories and defeats?. Why can a victory turn into a defeat and vice versa? The author is interested in historical problems common to humanity. The writer’s commitment to grass-roots mentality is also manifested on another level that is the moral level as such. Throughout the book Vladimov adheres to the principle which he formulated long ago - the first class literature presupposes not the way it is written in but implies the deep meaning behind the words. Striving after the imaginative force, the writer avoids exemplification and authoritarian style. Using not only the literary tradition but also the folklore and mythological methods Vladimov expands the horizons of the narration. The writer sticks to the facts but at the same time he tries to perceive the lines of development that are demonstrated not by the participants of the events - no matter how great their role in those events might be - but by the life itself which is in the historical course as well as in the destinies of individuals.

The typology of female images in novels “The Red Wheel” has been paid insufficient attention. Describers in the world, which was created by A. I. Solzhenitsyn, are not only masculinity but also female images, because they are not less important than other images created by Solzhenitsyn. Following the classic literary tradition is found in certain types of female characters.

The article is focused on the specificity of perception of literary and cinematic works by Marguerite Duras, in which the spectator becomes a reader in terms of literary reading’s model of perception. This process is based on the recreation of characteristics of literary reading in films. As a result, the spectator of Duras’s films is intended to produce a reflection both on literary and cinematic medium and finds himself involved in a process of progressive drift from spectator to reader.

The author of the article states that there is a problem of a controlled transition to the WWW of a passive audience that perceives online information on the type of traditional media consumers. In this regard, she suggests that researchers focus on the phenomenon of computer games that develop the ability of Internet users to evolve analytical thinking and work independently with information. Thus, the quality of proactivity is formed in the audience. The article deals with the classification of computer games that is relevant for new media. It is based on active action options for players. This is an instrumental embodiment of the subject-subject model of network communication.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the political media memes’ functioning, their effects and persuasion, to classify them and to describe their structure. In this study finding authors describe the actual persuasion of media memes in contemporary Russian society. Media memes have got a clear structure via they could spread in social media. This structure also allows to classify media memes for better understanding their functioning and general message, authors rank political media memes illustrating the ones of recent US presidential elections. These units’ successful using as a format of media effect and their replication in media can depend on our ways of persuasion, on neurological and psychological basis of information virality. In a nutshell, political media memes couldn’t be considered as humor units only, but also as a format of media impact, an effective tool of media discourse, propaganda and political agitation during election season.

Close attention of Russian and foreign researchers is currently undergoing a process of changing the distribution of media content in the digital environment. The processes of convergence and digitalization put before the editorial board new tasks, the main of which to construct the single communicative space and to create the unified information environment, based on the integration of various formats of the contest. The goal of the article is to review the most important channels for the distribution glossy magazines content in the mobile application environment. To classify the application data in terms of technical, genre and communication features. Identify the advantages and problems that are revealed in the process of digitalization. Considering the links established between the different forms of glossy media and analyzes current trends in their development.

The article covers the special report as a TV genre. The authors discuss its origin, history and current role on television. The development of this genre is linked to the works of such local journalists as A.G. Malkina, I.K. Belyaeva, M.E. Goldovskaya, V. Lisakovich and film director S. Govorukhin. “Genre diffusion” as the special report basis has evolved from the efforts to project huge historical events taking place in the 90-s of the 20-th century on movie and television screens. These events simply didn’t fit into the timeframe and theme limits of a conventional TV report. The scale and importance of these events demanded a search for new forms of presenting the material that would maintain the suspense of reporting and enable to fully examine and analyze the events. The article provides the analysis of movie and television films made in the 90-s of the last century