THE ROLE OF CINEMA IN THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY
Recently, many researchers are increasingly turning to the topic of the relationship between cinema and national identity. So, Dobronitskaya A. V. considers the problems of constructing ethnic identity through cinema, E. Savelyeva and Budenkova V. E. describe the national-cultural identity in the Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, Reznikova K. V. assesses the value of cinema for the formation of a nationwide national identity. Interesting arguments on this topic and such authors as Logunova E.V., Gizatova G. K., Ivanova O. G. and etc. The presented scientific article is devoted to national identity-an interdisciplinary term, which in recent years is increasingly found not only in scientific works, but also in journalistic ones. Based on the fact that culture is an important part of the formation of national identity, the authors argue that cinema plays an important role in this process. The authors turn to the history of the Soviet film industry and give examples of how some films and characters of films remain in the mass consciousness, forming a national identity. The article is based on the use of traditional research methods: dialectical, logical, scientific generalizations. Methods of analogy, comparative analysis and expert assessments are used as a methodological toolkit.