Features of the narrator's image in Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary series "Music of Russian Painting"

this article is devoted to the characteristics of the narrator's image in Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary "A Sentimental Journey to My Homeland. Music of Russian painting". Directors: Vitaly Maximov, Nikita Mikhalkov, screenwriters: Vitaly Maximov, Nikita Mikhalkov. Music by Artemyev. The series consists of fifteen films, each of which features one or two paintings by Russian artists, a total of 19 paintings. The story about the paintings and their interpretation is conducted on behalf of a personalized narrator, who is the director of the film Nikita Mikhalkov. To identify the main characteristics of the narrator's image in the documentary cycle, the article uses the methods of contextual and narrative analysis of film discourse. The novelty of the research lies in the application of the method of narrative analysis to the study of the documentary cycle, combining the features of media discourse and art criticism discourse. The article concludes that the personalized narrator in the documentary cycle is the structural and semantic center of the film discourse. The narrative approach allows us to analyze a documentary as a set of composite blocks (episodes) organized by the narrator's point of view, as well as to identify the narrator's characteristics that have an influencing potential for shaping and promoting the author's idea. The main characteristics of the narrator's image in this cycle are the primary narrative, realized in a personalized type of narrator; a special chronotope that allows you to combine the chronotope of the narrator with the chronotope of the painting; pronounced subjectivity of expressing the narrator's attitude to the described paintings and artists; explicit evaluative; humanistic tone (orientation) the story that creates the integrity of the documentary. Russian narrator tells about the paintings, trying to convey to the audience their Russian character, Russian nature, and Russian soul.

narrator, documentary, film text, chronotope, choice of narrative point of view, first person, painting