Статья посвящена кандидатской диссертации «Пантомима в обучении киноактера» Е. В. Харитонова (1941-1981), известного как прозаик, поэт и драматург. Рассматривается место исследования Харитонова в ряду других текстов о пантомиме 1960-1980-х годов (книги и методические пособия Александра Румнева, Елены Макаровой, Ильи Рутберга и др.): в отличие от других авторов, Харитонов использовал для ее изучения структурно-семиотический метод. С другой стороны, анализируется потенциал диссертации Харитонова как своеобразного манифеста ненормативного движения, которое формировалось внутри пантомимы и главным образом соцреалистического кинематографа учителем Харитонова, актером и мимом Александром Румневым. Кроме того, в статье намечается способ рассмотрения пантомимы и диссертации в первую очередь Харитонова в контексте советского гендерного порядка.
This articles focuses on Evgenii Kharitonov's Ph.D. dissertation, “Pantomime in Instruction of Film Actors”, which he defended in 1972. Kharitonov (1941–1981) is now known as a poet, playwright, and prose writer, and as the founder of contemporary Russian gay literature. We discuss the meanings of his dissertation in some different contexts: Soviet studies of theater pantomime from the 1960s–1980s, represented by monographs and textbooks by Alexander Rumnev, Elena Markova and Ilya Rutberg; as well as Kharitonov's own works. Unlike most authors of Soviet studies of pantomime, Kharitonov implemented the structural-semiotic method in his work. However, his consideration of pantomime as a representation of “natural”, “non-restricted” human movements covertly contradicts the culture-centrism common to the Soviet structuralists of the 1960s. We show that Kharitonov's theory of pantomime and his prose and poetry were united by the author's interest in the “non-normativity” of human gestures, behavior and consciousness. Apparently, Kharitonov inherited this interest from the well-known dancer and director Alexander Rumnev, one of his mentors. Rumnev was active in the 1920s and 1960s.
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.