Name
Aliev Rastyam Tuktarovich
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Organization, job position
Astrakhan state university
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Articles count: 3
The image of the Other/Alien is the litmus test
according to which researchers can determine the state
of the disease of society, its fears and hopes in a
certain period of social and cultural development. The
author of this article on the example of fictional
Other/Alien, has manifested the images of superheroes
and supervillains of American comics; he proves the
relationship between attitudes of society, paradigmatic
for certain periods of the history, with the construction
clothing marker Other/Alien. Turning to the two
periods of XX century American history, the
researcher has traced the evolution of the
characteristics of narrative images, typical for these
stages, revealed the main socio-cultural processes that
influenced the creation of such images in popular
culture, and came to the conclusion that the mood of
the American Society of the Great Depression period
and the World war II is well reflected in the narratives
of the time, in particular, in the comics. Clothing of
superheroes like images Other / Alien were dictated by
certain cultural, historical, social, and political ideas.
During the Great Depression, Another becomes a
“good” alien. His appearance is caused by the mood
and hopes of people of that time; the character appears
to be able to change the usual course of things. The
Second World War gave birth to a new type of the
Other, the personification of all US national values.
Another - now is not an alien. He is one of us, but he
has the same supernatural powers aimed at justice, not
only in the mood of the American Society but in the
whole world
The article examines the dichotomy of the images оf Alien/Another. Having considered the main points in understanding of this phenomenon, the author analyses the phenomenon of Alien/Another on the example of the images of superheroes/supervillains, identifies the dominant features in the images and proves the dichotomous relationship between them by using mathematical and statistical methods. On the basis of the study the author proposes the use of old mathematical methods in the new field of activity, in the specific case when working with an array of data, including artistic and cultural imagery
Parallel cultural space is a phenomenon within
heterotopia. All cultural processes and phenomena,
taking place there, operated by special laws and
regularities. The author substantiates the fact that the
nobility in Russia XVIII-XIX centuries is a special
time-space with features of parallel cultural space. In
particular, a comparison with other privileged strata of
the population of the Russian state, the analysis of
internal processes and phenomena proves this fact.
Originating in the XII century, among the younger
princely nobility went quite a long way in the
formation of a special service estate. In the XVIII
century is its final form as an aristocratic layer Russia,
and the author argues that it is from this time can be
observed heterogeneity of the space in which the
nobility and there. His positions, access to the broad
cultural, political and social benefits provide excellent
conditions for the separation of the nobility in a single
cultural space, which, in turn, determines the new
phenomena. This fact forces us to take a fresh look at
the problem in a certain culture formation development
in the environment for cultural security problem and
reveals the principles of heterotopic spaces functioning