Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (4)
- Authors
- Chernov,Leonid S.
- Contact information
- Chernov,Leonid S.:The Urals Institute Branch of the Presidential Russian Academy of the National Agriculture and State Service 66 8 Marta str., Yekaterinburg, 620063, Russia; E-mail:
- Keywords
- alien; alienation; Otherwise; terrible; epic movie; undestanding; salvation; Lieutenant Ripley
- Abstract
V.V. Bibikhin in his 2001 paper “Terrible Things” writes that in the XX century “because of the total erasure of religious worldview terrible things had acquired much of what used to be attributed to the evil spirits”.1 We may as well agree and add: mass culture speaks today of the terrible things, shows them, takes an interest in them, comes into contact with them and flirts with them. Much of what is now printed, published and produced as a film should not be imposed on the wide screen, come to readers or other audience. But the different thing happens too, when seemingly lightweight or commercial work in its essence turns to be carrying the same “transcendent” and religious meaning, which is described by V.V. Bibikhin. The religious matters are discussed by the words and language of secular, popular and seemingly quite distant from religion things. This happens without the author’s awareness, on the grounds of that the world is all arranged according to some stable relations and rules. The horrible thing is still horrible despite the fact so much is said about it and that now it is dressed in a modern and ironic coat of many colors. Alien, another, foreign substance do not cease to be even with the background of tolerance, multiculturalism and liberal all-understanding. In this paper we made an attempt to treat a stranger as having no correlation with our world, the Alien as absolutely and completely confronting the human
- Pages
- 721-737
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10330
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