The phenomenon of post-truth in the representation of the documentary image of the historical past in documentary-publicistic cinema (S. S. Govorukhin and Y. A. Dud')

The object of this study is the phenomenon of post-truth in the representation of the documentary image of the past in the assessment of Russian history on the example of two post-Soviet documentary films – S. S. Govorukhin «Russia that We Lost» (1992) and Yu. A. Dud' «Kolyma – Birthplace of Our Fear» (2019). On the example of each documentary, the author seeks to analyze the process of formation of assessment in the representation of the past through authtor's prism of historical events and their interpretation for the viewer. Attention is paid to a detailed analysis of what of the chosen theme is based on history changes depending on the actual socio-cultural context of the time and the dominant political conjuncture. Within this study hermeneutic and dialectical methods were used to analyze and understand the form of representation of the image of Russian history in post-Soviet documentary films, and the theory of cultural hegemony by A. Gramsci is also used to study the reasons for the interpretation and positioning of the past by the authors of documentary filmmaking. The novelty of the study lies in the comprehensive consideration and analysis of the phenomenon of post-truth as part of the processes in domestic documentary cinema, within the established socio-cultural context in which they were and are located. The positioning of history is studied on the example of the «Russia that We Lost» (1992), which is based on the arrangement of accents, in the case of representation and opposition of images of pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia. The process of interpretation of the Soviet Union is analyzed, in the case of «Kolyma – Birthplace of Our Fear» (2019), which is based on the general assessment of historical events at the expense of individual private cases.

Documentary film, Govorukhin, Kolyma, Representation, Documentary image, Post-truth, Gramsci, Cultural hegemony, Hermeneutics, Dialectic