An Analysis on the Russian Cultural Characteristics of “Battle for Sevastopol” from Overt and Covert Progressions

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.111How to use a DOI?

Keywords

overt plots, covert progressions, love, suffering consciousness, messianic consciousness

Abstract

“Female Sniper” (also known as “Battle of Sevastopol”) takes the defense of Sevastopol during World War II as the background, telling the military career of the top Soviet sniper Pavlichenko Lyudmila. This article interprets the film based on the dual narrative process proposed by Chinese scholar Shen Dan. The dual narrative process includes the plot development that has been widely concerned by critics so far, that is, the “overt plots”; the other is the “covert progressions” hidden behind the explicit plots. The “covert progressions” are a narrative undercurrent that run side by side with the development of the plot from beginning to end, and the two complement or subvert each other in various ways. The overt plots of the film focus on the fierceness of the war and the huge destructive effect, and then show the Russian nation’s responsibility in the face of fascists and the nation’s historical sense of suffering. The covert progressions present Russian Messianic consciousness three-dimensionally from the three dimensions of religion, politics, and spirit.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yuan Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - An Analysis on the Russian Cultural Characteristics of “Battle for Sevastopol” from Overt and Covert Progressions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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