2024/2025

Смеховое слово и карнавальность в фильмах братьев Коэнов

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 3, 4 модуль

Онлайн-часы: 20

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Чернецова Екатерина Владимировна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 6

Контактные часы: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course offers to observe and analyze films by the Coen brothers from perspectives of such concepts as laughter and carnival. The idea of the carnivalesque, specific nature of the comic within the frames of carnivalization and forms of its linguistic expression is a lens through which the Coens’ films narratives can be discussed in terms of language and communication. Students will explore the relationships between comic and serious, and learn to distinguish between various forms of laughter in a narrative. The foundation for the analysis and comprehension of laughter and carnival will become Mikhail Bakhtin's carnival theory, elaborated in his book Rabelais and His World. It will serve to help to integrate the comic processes of the work with its larger thematic and artistic structures. Bakhtin used medieval carnival rituals, the feast of fools, and other festive ceremonies to explain the curious combination of seriousness and humor. Traditions of unofficial popular culture represented by the philosopher are indeed seen in cinematic discourse of the Coen brothers. The carnivalesque spirit of films like Fargo (as well as TV series of the same name), O Brother, Where Art Thou? Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar! The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Tragedy of Macbeth and others provides a useful way of examining the world which connects the comic scenes to the serious themes. The ideas of Victor Turner, C.L Barber, Michael Bristol, Jacques Lacan, Jil Deleuze, Sigmund Freud and others will develop more viable theoretical ideas for the analyses offered to students.