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“Masha and the Bear” in the context of the new Cold war: the question of the role of cinema in symbolic politics
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Riabov D., Riabov O.
The paper focuses on the current discussions on the cartoon “Masha and the Bear” as a factor in geopolitics and international security. The authors show that using the frame of symbolic politics as a methodology for analyzing the problem of “cinema and politics” has a great heuristic potential
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