<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The article suggests that cinematic figures can be divided into two basic groups - barbarian and intellectual. The definition is based on the level of the figures’ intelligibility in the works of Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky. As Claude Lévi-Strauss’ myth analysis shows, there are structural similarities between cinematic figures and myths, the article searches for a closer, more site-specific link, engaging fairy tales, i.e. local myths, as a more efficient way of observing the distinctive features of the figures in specific regions.</p></abstract>

The article suggests that cinematic figures can be divided into two basic groups - barbarian and intellectual. The definition is based on the level of the figures’ intelligibility in the works of Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky. As Claude Lévi-Strauss’ myth analysis shows, there are structural similarities between cinematic figures and myths, the article searches for a closer, more site-specific link, engaging fairy tales, i.e. local myths, as a more efficient way of observing the distinctive features of the figures in specific regions.

Intellectual and Barbarian Figures in Film: The Bear and the Devil

Baltic Screen Media Review

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The article suggests that cinematic figures can be divided into two basic groups - barbarian and intellectual. The definition is based on the level of the...

Intellectual and Barbarian Figures in Film: The Bear and the Devil

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 112 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsmr-2017-0015

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