The Man of Screen: Dream Architecture and Patterns of the Future

// Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 494-506.The paper concerns problematics of the language of cinema and philosophical questions related to it: what kind of future cinema opened to the mankind, what price does it pay for video dreams, and how, from a technical toy, cinema has become a creator of the major myths of the mankind? Review of the cinema history and the main cinema genres represented in the paper are of current interest in the year of the 150th anniversary of the cinema inventor Louis Jean Lumiere, the 90th anniversary of Mosfilm and series of the world’s great directors and actors’ anniversaries.