Cinematography in the works of Sergei Sergeevich Zagrebin (1966-2022)

The article examines the work of the largest cultural scientist of the South Urals, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Sergei Sergeevich Zagrebin in the field of cinematography. His contribution to the study of Russian cinematography, the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, cinema aesthetics and semiotics of cinematography. Also offered for publication is an article by S.S. Zagrebin, dedicated to the figurative structure of urban landscapes in Russian cinema of the 1960s. S.S. Zagrebin makes a representative selection of domestic films created in the 1960s, which most fully reflected the main artistic-aesthetic and ideological-moral foundations of Soviet cinema of this period. In the structure of urban landscapes, six artistic dominants are distinguished: morning, friendship, love, rain, loneliness, night, through which artistic intentions and reflections are expressed, and a dialogue between the artist and the viewer is built. These artistic dominants are represented in a figurative-symbolic form, create internal tension in the film narrative, determine its polysemy and multidimensionality. The researcher focuses on the semantics of the city, which he considers in the unity of the named images-symbols that dominate in the representation of the urban space of the film narrative. S.S. Zagrebin summarizes that the use of semiotics as a method of cognition of cinema is a productive way of understanding emotional impressions in the mainstream of rational analysis of cinema and its reverse structure in the context of time.