Subject and Genre Specificity of Authored Documentary About Squatting (by the Example of the Film Project Squatters)

In the modern world media is one of the most powerful tools for constructing the reality. On media platforms people raise different socio-cultural issues. The theme of squatting is no exception. This theme is raised by filmmakers on the platform of authored documentary. Creating authored documentary about squatting has its subject and genre specificity. The project aims to analyze subject and genre specificity used by authors in documentaries about squatting. Our major creative task of the research is to create our own documentary having developed a concept of it before. Although the theme of squatting has been an object of study for many European researchers (Holm & Kuhn, Martínez, Patz, Srinivas, Steen, Katze & Hoogenhuijze, Thompson, Wates & Wolmar) and the subject for documentary filmmakers, we observe the lack of literature and authored documentaries on the theme in Russia. In order to fill the literature and cinematography gap we will conduct content analysis and comparative analysis and use the theoretical method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete (to elaborate the concept of our own film project) and empirical methods: portrait interview and participant observation, — to create the film. It is expected to point out subject and genre specificity of authored documentaries about squatting on the example of the authored film project «Squatters».