title: Initial Film Rhetoric: Catastrophe Measurement and Visual Estimation
abstract: The Crimean text originated as the South Pole of the Petersburg text. In the process of its genesis Semyon Bobrov's cumbersome poetics was absorbed by Alexander Pushkin's poetic ease. As for literary "film poetics", it is of the Crimean origin, and Bobrov remains unrivalled here, especially in the poetics of catastrophism. Later mythology of selfdenial turned to be especially inherent to two cities in the world, the cities being Petersburg and New York. Catastrophism was strengthened by cinemato
journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences