5.1.3. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.

1. cinema	a. to refuse to accept, believe in, or agree with something
2. project	b. something that you do because you enjoy it
3. innovation	c. to do something to entertain people, for example by acting a play or playing a piece of music
4. release	d. to provide a particular group of people with the things they need or want
5. genre	e. how good something is
6. set	f. attitude, feeling, or idea is strong and is very difficult to change
7. reject	g. the skill or industry of making films
8. deep-seated	h. the introduction of new ideas or methods
9. cultural activities	i. a particular type of art, writing, music, etc., which has certain features that all examples of this type share
10. high quality	j. to make the picture of a film, photograph, etc. appear in a larger form on a screen or flat surface
11. perform	k. to make a CD, video, film, etc. available for people to buy or see
12. cater for/to	l. a place where a film or television programme is filmed

5.2.1. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 2).

a work of art

an artistic movement

to go online

to represent

Internet art

a website

a global audience

to mark an anniversary

to surf the web

a low-cost way

to maintain a website

to dip into between e-mails

outside the commercial mainstream

a collector

visual and media art

the antennae of the race

on the fringes of mass culture

to churn out

addiction to make-believe violence

to straddle the old and the new

to do sequences

Hollywood sheen

to be played out in popular culture

both artful and manipulative

to make films for mass-audience consumption

5.2.2. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 3).

to set national policy for the arts

other nations’ public arts funding

to take over the NEA chairmanship

to view the arts through sth

philanthropic spending on the arts

a growing conviction/ consensus

democratic accessibility and availability

not to be affiliated with

to speak in a public idiom

to hew to a style

a handful of symphony orchestras and opera companies

“middlebrow” popular culture

to come out of a bad patch

to hold considerable sway over somebody

collective renewal

5.2.3. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the texts (Focus 4).

the kinetoscope

to show off the ingeniousness of sth

in fierce competition with each other

a way of increasing audience share

to achieve star status; pop promotional videos

the low-key lighting

herald

non-mainstream cinema

the booming video rentals

low quality mass culture

to look behind the market

artistic venues

junk

an antidote to

a marketeer

5.3.1 Find the English equivalents in texts (Focus 2) for the following Russian words and phrases.

превратиться в крупное художественное направление

интернетовские художественные центры

выставки-ретроспективы

влиться в артистический мейнстрим

традиционное искусство

благоразумие и вкус

как в серьезной, так и в популярной художественной литературе

режиссер игрового кино

использовать рекламные методы

большой экран

5.3.2. Find English equivalents in texts (Focus 3) for the following Russian words and phrases.

предоставлять помощь в виде грантов

частное пожертвование

история искусства

не попасть в поле зрения широкой публики

тенденции в искусстве

движение модернизма

художник-интеллектуал

культурное сходство

драматург

высокое искусство

стиль в искусстве

достойный подражания

постмодернизм

выдумать лучшее название

создавать искусство

5.3.3. Find the English equivalents in the texts (Focus 4) for the following Russian words and phrases.

использование звука в фильме

звуковой фильм

золотая эра Голливуда

коммерческое кинопроизводство

премия Оскар

карьера актера

входить, по мнению критиков, в десятку лучших

спецэффекты

мультипликация

киноиндустрия

интеллектуальный спор

сохранять высокое качество

оперный театр

записи классической музыки

новаторская идея

1. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (FOCUS 2).

1. John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs, preferring to work with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome.

2. The exhibition is organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada together with the National Archives of Canada and includes more than 190 photographs.

3. Do you and your family have any particular skills to use?

4. The reader’s consciousness, in short, is the arena in which a set of principles about beauty and ideological success or failure is ultimately determined.

5. Except for the rock follies of the Royal Standard and the Daniel O’Donnell – welcoming confines of the Assembly Halls, Walthamstow is as rich in artistic quality as the Arctic is in elephants.

6. A decade ago, the alternative comedy scene looked puny next to the most usual ideas.

7. Olsen points out that this sort of using words to describe ideas is alienating for poets who happen to be women; I would point out in addition the rather sinister implication that men are somehow masters of language, so that they and not we are entitled to decide her fate.

8. The complexity and energy of the early rock’n’roll moment are probably symptomatic of its position as a clear sign of quite deep situational change.

9. In your March issue, No16, I am correctly described as having misgivings about certain aspects of the blockbuster Russian extremely modern show being organized by the Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.

10. For those who went the distance it was time to show a sign of their achievement.

11. These values will mediate the impact of music, books, films that are liked by a lot of people.

12. I do know these boys, Superintendent, and I really don’t believe Pickerage is capable of anything as violent and cruel as that was.

13. Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy the In-Laws, Bergman reworked the same basic events that form the main story of a film around the star’s mythic bulk, casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini, who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon, and adopts him as one of the “family”.

14. The documentary director, Richard Cawston, was invited behind the gates of the royal palaces, to use a camera to record the royals at home.

15. I was disconcerted but the state of being very interested in the film went on.

16. There are three kinds of film: documentary film designed for language teaching; general film for amusement; and documentaries.

17. The error of so many critics and scholars is to write as if the paraphrasable elements in literature constituted its substance, whereas the value of literature is to be found not in propositions, but in relationships, and these relationships are not logical, but invented imaginary things.

18. The period covered by the description of events in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67.

19. Once a person who gave instructions to the actors and other people working on a film, now a cheerful but notorious lush, he seldom worked nowadays and when he did it was only television.

20. It is often in books about imaginary people and events that we see most plainly the conventions that writers handle and readers learn, and where literary competence begins to be developed.

21. There is a growing tendency towards greater protection for journalists’ sources in Europe, according to Ms. D’Souza.