The article proposes a film construct study model based on the
author’s metadisciplinary theory of cognitive-pragmatic programs (CPP) synthesizing
semiotic, cognitive and linguocultural approaches. Film construct is
understood as a form of a complex embodiment of branch, profile, image-role
and national-specific CPPs, organically connected with the whole multidiscursive
sociocultural space. The typology of film constructs by the type of
the dominant CPP is substantiated, the system of status-role political markers is
investigated in detail, allowing to determine the status and role of a particular
subject in the space of the film construct. The analysis of markers of this type
helps: a) to determine the basic principles of the organization of a common subject
film construct environment; b) to identify the structural features and mechanisms
of segmentation of a given space into separate subject areas; c) to reveal
the specifics of the interaction of these zones; d) to determine static-dynamic
features and causes (conditions) of the change in the status of subject-role
groups / individual subjects. In the space of each subjective area of the film construct,
one / several status-role markers are activated, which determine the belonging
of individual subjects to one or another subject-role group. Thus, the
marker “comrade” or “friend” is extremely significant – this is a subject whose
consciousness and model of behavior completely correspond to the conditions
and principles of functioning of the dominant CPP. The status “comrade” marks
a special subject area of the film construct – the “ally”. The space of the zone
“ally” is extremely dynamized, wide-open and flexible. This feature is determined
by the specifics of the functioning of the aggressive-mythological CPP, which, on the one hand, is in constant search for new real / potential enemies, on
the other hand, it continues the active search / “recruitment” of new adepts /
“comrades”. The subject-role status of the characters in the film is determined
by the dominant CPP and the ability of the person (program carrier) to develop
their own position considering it. The dominant CPP is a powerful tool of selfjustification
(of one’s fear, betrayal or inaction). The CPP “embeds” its defense
mechanism into the consciousness of the individual (conceptual-semantic interpretation
filter): the carrier of the CPP focuses not on the source of information
or even on its life experience, but tries to establish the degree of compliance of
the new information with the principles of the dominant program. The very
same subject-role status of the individual is unstable. If the status of the “enemy
of the people” can be obtained by any “own” person for the system, then any
“alien element” can become a “comrade”. As a result, every Soviet person is
endowed with a dual status (potential “foe” / “friend”). conceptual-semantic
interpretation filter.
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