Abstract: Cervantes’ novel is alongside the Bible as one of the most frequently published books in the world. His interpretations are countless and make the text rather diffi cult for understanding. Let us try to read the novel putting aside his ideologies and axiologies. Let’s say we are not interested in Cervantes as a Catholic, Cervantes as a monarchist, a patriot or a representative of the Pochvennichestvo. It is Cervantes the ‘free lancer’ we are interested in. Perhaps such an approach will cast light on important aspects of the novel’s meaning which heretofore have been hidden from the researches of Spanish literature and culture.

Keywords: Spain, Catholicism, monarchism, catholicity, European values, creative freedom, anthropology of mistrust, novel, Cervantes.

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Abstract: The article questions about the extent to which the National Socialism and Italian fascism were created by cinematograph and the emphasis of cinematograph on those, which role the cinematograph played in propaganda of politically signifi cant symbols and emotions and what responses were created to the paradoxes of the cinematic time. The author proceeds from the assumption that both Nazi and Fascism ideologies appealed to the logic of the epoch of cinematograph in the hope of connecting the present with a major ideological need. In order to reinforce his position, the author analyzes Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto written in 1909, A. Hitler’s speech at the opening of the Great Exhibition of German Art in 1937, Italian sculptor Umberto Boccioni’s artwork and etc.

Keywords: cultural studies, cinematograph, cinematic time, national socialism and fascism, totalitarian regime policy in the sphere of culture, entertaining role of mass media, documentation of reality, perception of life as a motion, photodynamism and time-lapse photography, modernism.

Abstract: Being the follower of the literature-centered outlook on the basic, fundamental cultural phenomena, the author disseminates his approach and views on interdisciplinary interaction between culture (in particular, literature) and humanitarian disciplines. The author proposes a hypothesis about literature-determinated genesis of sociology and, going even further — the entire class of humanitarian sciences. Having performed an insight into the development of the thesis, the author tries to prove the close gnoseological relation between literature (documentary literature in the fi rst place) and social science.

Keywords: literature, sociology, divergence, convergence, determinism, physiologism, essay, perception, cogni tion, hyper language, mega science, stylistics, written reproduction, interdisciplinary interaction, innovativeness, transformations.

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Abstract: During the last Soviet decades music sociology has being formed in the conceptual space of Russian music studies as a primarily ideological product. This article studies the music sociological texts of late 1960th – early 1980th as a tool of cultural policy. It is concluded that the mission of this science should be, in the fi rst place, the creation of acceptable offi cial ‘image’ of the Soviet audience, its preferences and responses to music.

Keywords: cultural studies, sociology, music, USSR, Soviet music culture, the Era of Stagnation.

Abstract: Linguistic communication created by human activity can turn into a factor guiding this activity. Variety and complexity of linguistic communication aggravate the social and cultural issues. The author describes the basic infl uences of linguistic communication on social and cultural realities: stimulation and organization, destruction, compensation, prognosis, context and contents, esthetics, social enter tain ment. The language is used at its most capacity by the society of high cultural development.

Keywords: cultural studies, social reality, linguistic communicant, structure of the thought, practical activity, linguistic picture of the world, meaning, feeling, psychological pattern, culture.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to I. V. Stalin’s replies to letters of the readers of his «Regarding Marxism in Linguistics» («On some problems of linguistics: reply to E. Krasheninnikova’ and ‘Reply to Comrades»). The article shows that the Soviet leader evidently wanted to use his own example as a demonstration of ‘struggle of opinions, freedom of criticism’. Stalin’s social and governmental policy did not give a chance to such a struggle, but he found the way to reconcile the contraries, different ways represented by different letters, as the matter of fact.

Keywords: cultural studies, linguistics, textological analysis, relation between the formal and semantic interpretations, formalism in linguistics, the role of dialects information of national languages, Mongolian dialects, sound language and sign language, language of the future, the beginning of the ‘Stalin’s period’ in the Soviet linguistics.

Abstract: The author of the article applies M. Foucault’s methodology to researching and teaching the Russian culture. The conception of the archeology of knowledge combined with other methodological concepts (by Thomas Kuhn, Erwin Panofsky, Naum Pevsner) allows to establish the research frame for analyzing the mechanisms of interaction and mutual infl uence of the historical epoch and concrete spheres of culture. In order to describe his original views on development of culture, the author makes his own categories of terms allowing to avoid a discriminated description of the culture-historical process (the spirit of the time, culturehistorical paradigm, leading cultural practice).

Keywords: cultural studies, culture-historical process, Russian Empire, Baroque, Modern Age culture, archeology (genealogy) of knowledge, the spirit of times (German Zeitgeist), culture-historical paradigm, leading cultural practice.

Abstract: The article empathizes that historically we have various forms of museum in Russia (private, institutional and state museums). The latter has been the most universal form but this form is not mobile enough. In practice, it is important to combine museum’s extra system functions allowing to work with different social classes with system functions which have been historically related to organization of the museum’s interior life. Such an approach has already brought us to the fact that today the leading Russian museums do not seem to be some kind of reservation or cultural necropolis. Quite on the contrary, they are part of local historical and cultural environment.

Keywords: cultural studies, heritage, society, museum, forms of the museum, extrasystem functions, system functions, social memory, historical and cultural environment, culture.

Abstract: In the 20th century many classical artworks truly changed due to development of new technologies. A completely new form of art, screen music theatre, appeared, and today it offers many unique works such as fi lmed version of M. P. Mussogorsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’. The composer’s suite acquires a new form in fi lmed ballets by I. Heber, M. Pendleton and Ch. Dutoit as well as in cartoon ballets by I. Kovalevsky, O. Tezuka and A. Alekseeva. Film versions of ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ are all original interpretations, in most cases quite typical for the post-Modernism ‘play with the text’.

Keywords: art history, transcription, interpretation, reinterpretation, derivation, M. P. Mussogorsky, suite, post-Modernism, music studies, cartoon animation.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues of modern development of a traditional folk culture. The author of the article touches upon the two particular issues: language of the ‘objective folklore’ and its interaction with other layers of modern arts, in particular, with art crafts.

Keywords: cultural studies, art studies, traditions and novations, folk art, archaic cogitation, projection forms, post-Modernism, craft, occupation, legacy.

Abstract: In this research W. Kandinsky examines «embryonic stage» of art science, analyses its defi nite prob lems and what is more underlines the ways of art and positive science approaches. Finally, the artist enlarges concept «the art theory», gives to it scientifi c basis and enriches it with natural-scientifi c principles. There is also the full text of Kandinsky unpublished article.

Keywords: V. V. Kandinsky, Russian Academy of Arts, embryonic state of science about art, positive science, monumental art, synthetic art, elements of art, resultant actions, the principle of the parallel fl ow, the principle of contraposition.

Abstract: The article studies the stage version of P. I. Tchaikovsky’s opera ‘The Queen of Spades’ directed by A. Galibin from the point of view of mass culture being the context for an opera performance. The study results in the two conclusions. Firstly, it is concluded that the features of mass culture in a performance include: dominance of the reproductive beginning or over the creative one, actualization of specific behavior of a ‘mass human’ in acting, external visual appeal and formal illustrations of scenography and stage direction, absence of integrality and consistency of solutions in acting. Secondly, it is concluded that such a performance realizes the principles of mass culture: simplicity, accessibility, regularity and easy perception.

Keywords: cultural studies, mass culture, classics, art, music, theatre, opera, interpretation, stage direction, scenography.

Abstract: It is the fi rst Russian publication of James Joyce’s essay ‘James Clarence Mangan’ (1920), one of the fundamental works which expresses early Joyce’s esthetic attitudes. The main hero of his essay, James K. Mangan (1803-1849), a ‘Celtic Nerval’, was a poet, translator, essay writer and one of the brightest fi gures of Irish and European late Romanticism. This essay became an important part of early Joyce’s creative works; many of the thoughts, formulas and stylistic expressions were then repeated and transformed in other Joyce’s works.

Keywords: cultural studies, esthetics, James Joyce, Ireland, romanticism, poetry, fi ction, art, artist, style.

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Abstract: The article devoted to creative work by Oleg Udaev (Gleb Tsvel) shows that practically in every work by Oleg Udaev we can fi nd examples of his thorough attention to the gaps between material matters, phenomena and circumstances which were often reconciled by the author at their contrasting points according to Lomonosov’s principle of ‘reconciliation of contraries’ and actualized by Russian nerds, and then — imagists, OBERIU, and various Dadaists and surrealists in the 20th century. Perhaps, our young hero read some of them, although it is more possible that he felt the need in crossing borders, in reconciliations, in getting a hold of words and dreams even in the air around him. The reality was defi nitely too small for him. It just narrowed the space which was much wider than dictations and copy-books.

Keywords: Russian avant-garde in literature, poet, Oleg Udaev — Gleb Tsvel, author and reader, writings (poems or texts), accentuation of texts, overcoming a negative experience by destructing this experience, ‘atonal’ lyrics, tragedy-drama-comic spaces.

Abstract: The article provides information about biography of a major, although still depreciated Russian artist V. I. Shukhaev (1887–1973), shows the importance and just-in-time publication of the book and comments on a high level of E. P. Yakovleva’s reference apparatus.

Keywords: art history, painter, schedule, scene designer, lecturer, exhibition, letters, memories, Shukhaev, Yakovlev.