Keyword: «postmodernism»

In this article, the actual features of the domestic political language are considered on the basis of a critical analysis of Russia's past and current political culture and political discourse. This article is also focused on the knowledge of the specifics of Russian reality, viewed through the prism of the features of the language of modern politics. The term “political” is interpreted by the authors as a universal human activity oriented towards the transformation, organization and improvement of the social world. In this regard, political knowledge is considered in the article as successively located social discursive (language) practices.

The current research studies the categories of intermediality and intertextuality as the key features of postmodern paradigm. The research highlights cinematic intermediality in general, and Woody Allen’s films, in particular. Woody Allen skillfully captures the postmodern spirit in his works through multiple intertextual references, inter-arts associations, mixture of more than two genres. The combination of the above features creates a special atmosphere of Woody Allen’s films that renders his understanding of postmodern aesthetics.