Segment analysis methodology in the students’ perception of the language of poetic cinema by S. Parajanov (on the example of the film “The color of pomegranate”)
Sergei Parajanov is a symbolic phenomenon in the history of cinema, whose works are included in the list of world masterpieces. The peculiarity of his poetics consists in visual plasticity and subject symbolism, organically woven into the film artistic structure. “The color of pomegranates” is an unusual decision of the director to tell about the fate of the Poet through an appeal to the work of the medieval poet Sayat-Nova. Allegory, visual density and semantic elasticity of the film frame, the use of a frontal plan, theatrical and pictorial construction of images are the means that distinguish the cinema language of S. Parajanov. The search for pedagogical solutions to acquaint the student audience with the potential of poetic cinema is associated with the implementation of a polyartistic approach that promotes the development of artistic thinking, the formation skills of critical understanding of information, research skills allows students to see a work of art as a whole in its connection with the historical and cultural context. The purpose of the article is to represent the method of segment analysis of cinema in teaching students: the step-by-step, phased movement of the teacher and the audience leads to the comprehension of the film director’s intention and understanding of cinema as a type of synthetic art. Elements of a facilitated discussion, the “flipped lesson” and “Image and Thought” technologies are used as key tools for the active involvement of students in the process of interpreting visual images and texts. This technique allows solving both general pedagogical tasks related to the harmonious development of the individual, worldview, and spiritual and moral education, as well as educational ones - acquaintance with the classics of Russian cinema encourages understanding of the close relationship of history, culture, and art.