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Abstract: The article inspired by the work ‘Avant-Garde in Culture of the 20th Century (1900-1930): Theory. History. Poetics’ views avant-garde from the point of view of the ‘frontier’ conception. The author of the article describes the heuristic potential of the system approach and raises a question about specifying the civilization ‘look’ of avantgarde. The author concludes that as a socio-cultural phenomenon avant-garde is global but not universal and its archaic origins are limited to Indo-European area. During the Þ rst three decades of the 20th century avantgarde movement covered the closely related civilizations of the two types: ‘classical’ Western sub-ecumene and ‘frontier’ civilizations of Russia, Latin America, Pyrenean Europe and the Balkans. The East was, and still is, affected by the avantgarde movement but its affect has been rather superÞ cial and avant-garde has been more of a foreign innovation there.

Keywords: cultural studies, avant-garde, socio-cultural ‘frontier’, dialogic approach, heuristic potential of the system approach, integrity under the conditions of dominating variety, classical Western sub-ecumene, frontier civilizations, foreign innovation, theory and history.

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Abstract: Changes which has taken place in conceptions of many phenomena lately allow us to take a new look at the combination of words ‘petrol and culture’. Not going too deep into details, let’s say that this connection is becoming extremely clear after certain genetic researches explaining the primary foundation of culture. The roots of a visual or verbal image lie in the mechanism of speech. Metaphor, as it is already known, is a mechanism of transfer of the meaning, i. e. – the mechanism of speech formation and, consequently, culture formation. It is time now to get a cultural understanding of strategic natural resources. Metaphor is the basic and the most profound, even though not the only one, tool for such understanding. Does it mean that we are facing the new stage of humanization of natural science and thereby, new opportunities of cultural studies, such as cultural understanding (a kind of cultural audit) of mineral resources?

Keywords: cultural studies, petrol, metaphor, culture, humanization, mineral resources, cultural audit, image, speech, potential.

Abstract: In the article the term ‘philosophy of culture glossary’ is applied to M. Gorky’s experience in play write. DeÞ nition and argumentation of the problem is based on the materials of distinguished theatre interpretations of Gorky’s plays in the Russian theatre in the middle of the 20th century. Everyday values and their implementation into life are studied by the example of such plays as The Petty Bourgeois, The Lower Depths and The Last Ones. As a result, the author makes a conclusion about a ß exible and concise coordinate system denoting the life problems and values at the beginning of the 21st century.

Keywords: cultural studies, philosophy of culture, glossary, playwright, Gorky, life, faith, mercy, lie, disappointment.

Abstract: The article reveals the issues of the study of the night concept in modern cultural studies, philosophy and art history. The author analyzes the scientiÞ c interpretation of the night concept as a psychological phenomenon, natural and culture factor of socialization of individuals and a vast area for formation of cultural archetypes of the collective unconscious. The author describes the consistent pattern of interchanging historical eras (from the Primitive Age to the Modern Age) where the day and the night types of social consciousness prevailed. Similar interchange is projected on the change of art style in the 17th – 20th century which speeding up creates a basis for formation of post-modern forms of culture and artwork and esthetic practice.

Keywords: cultural studies, night, archetype, consciousness, sociality, chronotope, dreams, myth, cosmos, post-modernism.

Abstract: The article casts light on the major results of a so far short experience of the festival of audio visual anthropology called The Ethnographic Cinema Days, as well as the tasks it solves. The world science has accumulated plenty of audio visual methodological and theoretical materials which is actively used in teaching and researching. However, visual anthropology performs an auxiliary function, at its best, in the Russian academic environment. It prompted in 2009 the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies to come forward with an initiative to arrange an annual cinematographic festival of audio visual anthropology The Ethnographic Cinema Days aimed at solving important tasks in theory and practice.

Keywords: cultural studies, anthropology, ethnology, audio visual methods, visual anthropology, festival, audio visual technologies, documentation, memory, cinema.

Abstract: Being the Þ rst article devoted to I. V. Stalin’s famous works in the science of language published in the Pravda Newspaper in 1950, this article views the Þ rst and the most voluminous text with the title ‘Regarding Marxism in the Science of Language’ published in the 20 June issue of the newspaper. The author shows that Stalin set the tree tasks of the Soviet science of language: liquidation of the Arakcheev regime, waiving Nicolas Marr’s mistakes and introduction of Marxism into the science of language.

Keywords: discussion of the science of language issues, criticism of a ‘new teaching about the language’, environment of the 1920th, introduction of Marxism into the study of language, relation between the language and the superstructure, class nature of the language, the national languages issue, dialects and talks, evolutional nature of the language development.

Abstract: The article considers the functions of the music background in modern age and traces back their transformations in history. The author of the article makes an attempt to explain why the music background is so popular today, what it is necessary for and what it expresses in different situations of everyday life, as well as how the perception of music changes depending on the context in which it is played.

Keywords: cultural studies, music, everyday life, background, entertainment, time, sound reproduction, communication, functionality, expectation

Abstract: Glossy magazines are a special form of media. Issues of fashion, advertisement and social statuses are closely intertwined here. The article studies the interaction of all components of this print media during almost twenty years of existence of the ‘gloss’ in Russia.

Keywords: cultural studies, magazines, economics, advertisement, media, consumption, luxury, gloss, gender, fashion.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to Moscow International Festival of naïve art and outsiders’ art work which has been taking place once in three years since 2004. The author describes the questions of formation and functioning of the so-called festnaive and analyzes exhibitions of artwork and the topics discussed during scientiÞ c conferences held within the framework of the festival.

Keywords: cultural studies, culture, naïve art, festival, museum, fringe, creative work, archetype, topics, genres.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of conflict management at circus. The author describes how the conflicts are formed, constructed and solved there. The author also describes the dependence of a trick expressivity on the level of effect of actor’s surroundings - stage property, partner, audience, and animals –on development of a conflict.

Keywords: circus, conflict, artist, emotions, partner, space, state property.

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Abstract: The article describes the difference between science and being, analyzes synaesthetic conceptions and creates the model of synaesthesia.

Keywords: art studies, art history, color, code, images of the value, conception, image, concept, image-concept, correlation in art studies, the meaning of color in culture, science, being.

Abstract: Instrumental composition with words is one of new genres of music which formed its genre features only in the second half of the 20th century. This article considers functions of a text from the point of view of a music form (introduction, integrative addition, integrative dominance, generalization, autocracy), their relations with music and inß uence on the content of a music piece. As an example the author describes V. Ekimovsky’s, R. Erickson’s, F. Rzhevsky’s, S. Zagnia’s, S. Gubaidulina, K. Huber’s, D. Ligeti’s, D. Macintosh’, E. Williams’ and D. Howard’s works.

Keywords: art studies, art history, music, synthesis, form, content, text, function, post-modernism, 20th century, art.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of functioning of cinematograph in modern conditions as an industry and a form of creativity. Special attention is paid at transformations in cinema technologies related to the expansion of the 3D (Natural Vision) technology. The author analyzes the reasons of the motion-picture process splitting into ‘mainstream’ and ‘art house’ and influence of the economic crisis on Russian cinema.

Keywords: cultural studies, motion-picture process, main stream, art house, Natural Vision (3D), Internet, digital technologies, copyright, subculture, movie festival.

Abstract: The author analyzes the narrative coincidences which happened during the Cannes Festival of 2011 as well as parallels in certain details. It is shown that being another complete piece of artwork, the festival starts to live its own life, goes beyond its authors’ intentions and gives new opportunities for interpretation.

Keywords: cultural studies, art studies, cinema, Cannes Festival, Þ ne arts, history of cinema, cinema and Þ ne art, visual culture, melancholy, creative work, 3D.