IMAGOLOGICAL MYTHS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN "ANNA KARENINA" (2012)

The article deals with L. Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" film adaptation, created in 2012 by director J. Wright and T. Stoppard, a world-famous postmodern playwright. The screenplay and numerous interviews are analysed, the four main tasks solved by the filmmakers are discussed; the basic principles of imagological analysis are determined, the influence of the book "Natasha's Dance" by O. Fidges on the filmmakers' reception of L. Tolstoy's novel and imagological myths about Russia is investigated. The article emphasizes the great impact of the book on the formation of such imagological myths about Russia as the lack of national identity among the Russian people. The difference in romantic "regimes" between Russia and Western countries is underlined. We argue that there is a special imagological myth of Russian love formed as the result of the "holy Russian literature" reception and interpretation in general and L. Tolstoy's novel in particular. The necessity of including the native literature, history and other liberal arts into the technical university academic curriculum is stressed, as they arc part and parcel of creative scientific and technical specialist's education. The idea of integrating the film adaptation and translation analysis of Russian classics into the English language classes at technical universities is proposed. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org .UK