Evolution of the "Bad" Movie Understanding in the Late Soviet Film Criticism

The research is devoted to the evolution of the concept of "bad" in late Soviet cinema in the period from 1953 to 1985. The research raises questions about the need to clarify the relationship between Soviet ideology and aesthetics in film production in the late Soviet period, when, according to researchers, there is a blurring of authoritarian norms in all spheres of society. The chronological framework of the work is the late Soviet period of "thaw" and "stagnation". The study uses the reading formation theory as a methodology. Meaningful understanding of the category of " bad " films is carried out through a computerized semantic analysis, which involves a number of stages of research: 1) codification of film critics ' claims based on smashing film reviews; 2) formation of a semantic network – stable connections between these claims; 3) analysis of the semantic network – identification of stable / changeable groups of claims, identification of nuclear and peripheral claims. As a result of the research, the aesthetic and ideological standards of the late Soviet period were reconstructed on the basis of devastating reviews.