Transformation of Drug Use Patterns in Foreign Cinema Discourse

Student: Astafurova Elena

Supervisor: Liubov Shantyreva

Educational Programme: Advertising and Public Relations (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2020

Cinematography is a real mechanism for the dynamics of human views and values. Films make us cry and laugh, compassionate and hate; they entertain, educate and shape social attitudes. Cinematography focuses on acute social problems, and filmmakers often turn to the topic of drug addiction. This study explores the transformation of drug use patterns in a foreign film discourse in order to identify the changing variables in their broadcast and to determine the direction in which foreign film is moving in the representation of drug addiction. In the course of the study, content and discourse analysis were conducted to identify all the unknown variables.

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