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Audiovisual media (cinematography, television, and the internet) are effective means of affecting the audience, especially school children and youth (due to their age peculiarities and a high degree of their media contacts); in recent decades Russian schools and universities have significantly been altered and reformed and are still the focal point of vigorous debates; consequently, the analysis of school and university topic transformation in the mirror of Soviet, Russian and Western audiovisual media texts is highly topical nowadays both for culture studies, film studies and media education. Book´s material is feature films about school and university. The authors use a comparative hermeneutic analysis of audiovisual media texts relating to the topic (including stereotypes analysis, ideological analysis, identification analysis, iconographic analysis, narrative analysis of media texts, media text´s character analysis, etc.), anthropological and gender analyses.

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Prof. Dr. Alexander Fedorov is media & film researcher. He was a guest professor and visiting senior research scholar in: Central European University (Budapest, 1998, 2006), Maison des sciences de l´homme (France, 2002, 2009), Kennan Institute (USA, 2003), Kassel (2000), Humboldt (2005), Mainz (2010) & Frankfurt (2014) universities.

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