Sergey Ogudov
@fii.rsuh.ru
Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art, School of Art History
EDUCATION
2008 –2012, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Philological Faculty, Bachelor's degree
2012–2014, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Philological Faculty, Master's degree
2017 - PhD in Literary Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Narratology, History of Cinema. History of Literature, Theory of Cinema, Theory of Literature
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Sergey Ogudov
New Literary Observer
Sergey A. Ogudov and
Saint Petersburg State University
This article examines the interpretation of Alexander Rzheshevsky’s screenplay Bezhin Mea dow by Sergey Eisenstein. Comparison of different versions of the script reveals the emergence of the film’s conception and changes of the narrative made during the transition from the screenplay to the shooting script. Special attention was given to Eisenstein’s interpretation of the three key episodes of the future film: siege of the church, highway episode, and defeat of the church. The reduction of narrative distance and the growth of the scale of an event are exemplified are exemplifies by the scene of the siege of the church. From this point of view the shelling of peasants from the church and the subsequent assault evoke episodes from Battle ship “Potemkin” and October. The interpretation of the highway episode is based on the use of visual and aural counterpoint. Eisenstein finds the equivalent of the spoken word through the use of the contrasting montage that combines images with speech, noise and music. Eisen stein strengthens the role of religious reminiscences in the central episode of the defeat of the church while showing the destruction of religious objects. Each of these episodes in a way or another implies violence and oriented to the expression of traumatic experience. In this sense Rzheshevsky’s screenplay echoed Eisenstein’s creative preoccupations. It made possible the depiction of historical events in such a way that history itself becomes a substitute for this experience. The study of the narrative in the screenplay allows us to reconstruct the content of the unfinished and forbidden film.
Sergei Ogudov
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the study of the film scripts by Aleksandr G. Rzheshevskii (1903–1967). In contrast to the concept of the ‘emotional scenario’, which emphasises the textual structure, this article suggests a reading of his scripts in connection with the problems of an oral narrative of personal experience. Such an approach allows us to consider important creative principles for Rzheshevskii’s work, in particular the link between the film script with biographical experience and orality, both at the level of composition and in the course of the presentation of the text. As compositional markers of oral speech, the article analyses elements of poetic syntax, indefinite pronouns, onomatopoeias, blasphemy and abusive terms, which are the result of storytelling about the events of the Civil War and its consequences.
Sergei Ogudov
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT This article is devoted to a study of point of view in screenplay narrative. Starting from the concepts of Monika Fludernik and Manfred Jahn, who investigated focalisation derived from the principles of morphological poetics, the analysis follows the gradations of point of view and its transition from narrator to character, using the example of the screenplays for the film A Fragment of the Empire. Changing point of view corresponds to the transformation of the literary scenario into the director’s script and is presented as conflict: in the scenes of the return of memory, the character transitions from a naive ‘folkloric’ vision of the world to madness, which later finds its reflection in the film.
S. A. Ogudov
Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
The article is devoted to the narratological analysis of a screenplay. A distance between a narrator and a story world that constitutes a narrative is studied in regard to a conception of screenplay not as an autonomous literary work but as a series of texts corresponding to various stages of preparation for a film shooting (in our case a libretto, a literary script and a shooting script). The comparison of the literary script and the shooting script of the film “The Heir to Genghis Khan” written respectively by Osip Brik and Vsevolod Pudovkin reveals the shift of the narrative distance, that determined the way the events were shown. During the transition from the literary script to the shooting script the narrative distance is decreased due to the director’s idea on the film and also due the industrial context of filmmaking.