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ABSTRACT
Art has always been connected with human emotions, and fear is one of them. What kinds of narrative patterns are used to depict emotions onscreen, for instance fear? This paper explores the emotion of fear, which predominates in a number of recent Russian TV series, by examining the language of fear onscreen in the intricate interaction of real-life schemata and fantasy, as well as the place of so-called ‘fear-narratives’ in broader contexts related to certain types of events and situations. It describes the tendency in recent Russian TV series, that can be called ‘Russian noir’, which plays with the emotion of fear, and seeks to answer the question, whether there are any differences in depicting and inducing the emotion of fear between the small screen and the big one.
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1 It is worth noting that the Epidemic is based on the novel Vongozero (2011; in English translation – To the Lake, 2016) by Yana Vagner and was filmed in 2018 – early 2019, i.e. one year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lyubov Bugaeva
Lyubov Bugaeva is Dr. hab., Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Russia; author of ‘Literature and rite de passage’ (St. Petersburg, 2010, in Russian) and of about 200 articles (in Russian and English); head of the research group on Kino-Text analysis, St. Petersburg State University; member of the editorial board of ‘International Journal of Cultural Research’, ‘Human Affairs’, ‘Pragmatism Today’, ‘Kinema’; a Fulbright scholar (2007-2008) and a Kone Foundation Fellow of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2015). Fields of research: film studies, literary theory, cognitive narratology.