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Abstract: The article analyzes the relation and interactions between the three streams or ‘cultural layers’ in modern culture, - world high and popular culture, national cultures (‘All-Russian Culture’ in Russia) and particular ethnic cultures. The author of the article describes resources which allow various cultures to keep a decent place in a cultural range. Special attention is paid at the Russian culture which complexity is a good example of historical unity constantly being proved by every new generation (‘nonhomogenous whole’ as Mikhail Bakhtin used to call it), - unity in diversity.

Keywords: cultural studies, ethnology, world culture, national cultures, particular ethnic cultures, ‘national renaissances’, epoch of globalization, cultural norms, cultural differences, referential cultural norm

Abstract: By defining the continuum of one certain culture the author shows how traditions, values, customs and rituals, lifestyle and general rules of social life and behavior forming the variety of cultures within one culture, are transformed nit he course of a political and cultural process, how people understand or misunderstand each other. If we view all what happens from the point of view of culture, we can actually understand where we can engage culture in order to influence humanity, and where we can’t do it.

Keywords: cultural studies, art history, conservatism, inno vations, modernization, multiculturalism, interculturalism, transcul turalism, mutual understanding, culture

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Abstract: The article considers the vertical and horizontal changes of social antagonisms and socio-cultural forms of the societyand- government synthesis in the global context and in respect to Russia particularly.

Keywords: cultural studies, political cultural studies, media communication, rebellions of the crown and elite, meritocracy, structure of a social act, economization of politics, contradictions in semantics and orientations, media simulation, political engineering

Abstract: Visualization of a travel assumed, firstly, searching for physically embodied traces of God in earthly things and secondly, anagogic ascent to their spiritual content. Important role in this process was referred to maps and travel guides. Medieval cartography was a historical and mythological chronotopus. Visual and verbal fragments of such maps were determined by the topographic information of the Old and New Testaments and the Antique geographic data which survived through the times of Barbarian invasions.

Keywords: art history, cartography, chronicles, Hugh of Saint Victor, De arca Noe mystica, Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, mnemonics, didactics

Abstract: Today Time has become one of the basic categories of the interdisciplinary discourse devoted to society and culture, their present situation and modern transformations. The concept of the present time culture reflects the main peculiarities of modern temporality and a special role of time for culture and society: typical phenomena of time and space compression and their consequences for individuals and society; change in a status of the Present, Past and Future; forms of time perception and how new information and communication technologies as well as consumer culture influence them; new civilization ‘diseases’ caused by the fuss and new stresses related to the time perception, new threats and suggestions to resist them; influence of changing experience and time conceptions on social life and transpersonal relationships. In this article the present time culture is viewed as a global phenomenon which also has a local ‘Polish’ version. The author raises a question whether it is a solely Polish or eastern European post-communist peculiarity.

Keywords: cultural studies, interdisciplinary discourse, social and cultural time, time compression, extended present time, present time culture, modern age, new communication technologies, consumer culture, need for a slow pace

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Abstract: The article is devoted the phenomenon of a representation which in post-modern mediatized culture became primary in reference to reality. Knowledge and concepts of the world are more often gathered from the universal set of representations, the latter being built in accordance with certain laws related to representation policy. In this article the author analyzes peculiarities of modern literary and movie texts which are the richest source of representations.

Keywords: cultural studies, representation, text, reality, construction, relfection, verbal, movie, narrative, visuality

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Abstract: The article considers the definition of culture which is the most adequate in regard to the latest studies of human speech activity proving that ‘speech formation’ and ‘culture formation’ are becoming practically synonymous now. It is asserted that in the 21st century, human existence is defined by the consistency of outcasts from niches, stratum and etc. but not the consistency of social bonds. Under such conditions construction of one’s personal ‘first world’ is nothing else but a construction of one’s own individual and na ve culture. The author of the article suggests one of the possible methods of teaching cultural studies which would allow to master universal intellectual operations and to focus on a personality living in an ever-changing world.

Keywords: cultural studies, culture, speech activity, social bonds, dialogue, first world, shock of the present time, creativity, motivation, teaching

Abstract: The model realized in a communication library is probably the only change to teach the right behavior in a multipolar, globalized and mosaic space of modern reality. It can be achieved if a library is aimed at satisfying real problems and needs of its users instead of preserving the ideals of the past epochs; if the library strives at defining and focusing on common problems; if it tries to provide its room, information resources and communication channels for organization of modern ‘conference grounds’ with maximum service for a dialogue. Unlike the theatre, ‘school of life’, multicultural library is a ‘school of communication’ in the first place.

Keywords: cultural studies, culture, communication, library as a socio-cultural institution, traditions and innovations, globalization, world perception crisis, personal socialization, archetype, overcoming the barriers of misunderstanding

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Abstract: The article describes Taganrog as a place with a strong historical and cultural energy (in Russian and Global historical and cultural contexts) and Chekhov’s province as a special area of ideas and spirits at the crossing of opinions of pre-Chekhov and after-Chekhov Russia artists and philosophers. The author defines A. P. Chekhov’s consolidating role for Taganrog and his contribution to establishment and progressive dev elopement of cultural institutions there (theatre, library and museum) as well as the ‘feedback’ which the famous writer received when he was alive and which Taganrog citizens felt after the writer died.

Keywords: cultural studies, memory of history, homeland culture, genius loci, place of development, province, historical city, cultural memorial, Taganrog, A. P.Chekhov

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of exposure of everyday culture towards the other phenomenon of everyday life in a dialogue of diverse cultural traditions. Ongoing global transformations are so great that they influence everyday style of life, too, even though it was thought to be one of the most conservative spheres in human life before. Migrations are one of such important changes in the sphere of social life. How significant are transformations in everyday life of Moscovites caused by migration? Taking into account that migrations to major cities are widely spread all over the world, this topic may have a global but not only regional meaning.

Keywords: cultural studies, ethnicity, everyday life, traditions, migrants, interrelation, Muscovites, society, culture, tolerance

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of anthropological cinematograph. The author gives a brief summary of its history and modern state (in a socio-cultural context) and describes the two schools of the Russian anthropological cinema, - the Moscow School (headed by E. V. Alexandrov) and the Ural School represented by the author of the article. The author also describes what the festival movement is and what perspectives anthropological cinematograph has.

Keywords: cultural studies, visual anthropology, cinematograph, anthropological and ethnographical cinema, objectivity, ‘real human’, ethnology and ethnicity, video document, festivals, ‘the other’

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the mutual relations which are being formed today between a booming ‘science about culture’ and art disciplines such as art history. Acknowledging the crisis of modern historical science (as well as art history) as a sub subject of natural science, the author tries to go back to historian of art Igor Grabar’s useful methodological thesis saying that history of art is a history of culture at the same time. According to the author of the article, today this thesis gives certain leads for historians but also demands a deeper insight into methodological matters.

Keywords: cultural studies, modern, post-modern, historical psychology, esthetics, structuralism, myth, social studies of art, history of art history, art studies

Abstract: In order to start Renaissance, architecture of every European country (except for Italy) needed a combination of the four basic factors including, in the first place, a group of people ready to perceive Antique forms and ideas: masters –creators, mighty customers and thinkers which could either perceive the philosophy of Italian or Byzantine humanism or create their own ideology which would evolve around the Rome Empire or Byzantium. New forms appearing during the years when the Moscow architecture was close to Italian Renaissance of the 15th century, was determining its development for quite a long time.

Keywords: cultural studies, art history, culture of architecture, Renaissance, diplomacy, dialogue of the East and the West, Moscow at the Third Rome, Russian and Italian connections, Renaissance forms of orders, new type of thinking

Abstract: Every time we deal with art, we intuitively feel that true artists are free in their creation activity. Expression ‘free-lance artist’ has a mythological meaning (‘this is an indefensible and often repeated fantasy’) and the concept of the ‘miracle of art’ contains a mythological meaning of the other kind. Suggestion that we are strongly influenced by art just because it represents ideas, beliefs and world view of the other epochs and cultures seems rather doubtful. In the sphere of art we can understand and explain many things or almost everything except for one thing: why a master-piece is a master-piece and why it has such a powerful influence on us, our minds and spirits. This is the only thing we never understand about art but this is the essence of art itself.

Keywords: cultural studies, art history, creativity, artist’s freedom, cultural stereotypes, conformism, interpretation of an art work, mythology of a creative act, spirituality, masterpieces