Oles Yanchuk
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Kyiv.
ORCID ID 0009-0004-7108-1802
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-27-2025-1.127-135
Keywords: cinema, film dramaturgy, film script, plot, director.
Abstract.
This article examines the features of Ukrainian film dramaturgy of the early 21st century from the point of view of cultural studies. Using the example of such films as: «Assassination. Autumn Murder in Munich», «The Undefeated», «Bishop Andrii», «Iron Hundred», «The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura», new trends in scriptwriting and the general influence of film dramaturgy on modern Ukrainian cinema are traced.
At the beginning of the 20th century, with the advent of cinema art, the peculiarities of Ukrainian screenwriting were manifested in the fact that directors turned to literary works, in the 1920s, screenwriters worked in the All-Ukrainian Photo and Cinema Department, writers were involved in working in cinema, but still the problem of writing scripts existed and there was a shortage of experienced screenwriters, so it was not uncommon for film directors to take on this function and rework the scripts of both famous masters and amateurs. In modern Ukrainian cinema, the director plays a leading role; he or she can also act as a screenwriter.
Thanks to the processes of decolonisation and the liberation of art from the clutches of Soviet ideology, today the viewer can see on the screen true events based on Ukrainian history, which were previously silenced during the Soviet era. Ukrainian cinema remains deeply national, this is manifested primarily through the language, manner of communication, interpretation of events and phenomena, plot-figurative concept, interpretation of Ukrainian identity, writing scripts based on undisclosed historical facts.
Author’s Biography.
Oleksandr (Oles) Yanchuk, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Member of the European Film Academy, Film Director, Producer, Senior Lecturer of the Department of “Organization of Theatrical Affairs”, Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Kyiv.
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Published:
Section: UKRAINIAN CULTURE.