Attempts to construct an image of the hero in the ukrainian cinema of the independence period

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the central images of heroes in Ukrainian cinema from
the time of independence until today. The methodology of the research is based on the application of historical and cultural approaches, methods of comparative analysis, comparison, and

generalization, which allowed to analyze the main trends in the visualization of heroes' images in
Ukrainian cinematography during the designated period. Such interdisciplinary permitted
methodology to reveal the main chronological and value-semantic features of the heroic pictures in
the national cinema. The scientific novelty consists in an attempt to expose the central tendencies in
the construction of heroic images in Ukrainian cinema during the period of independence.
Conclusions. We can distinguish three main trends in the design of heroes in the cinema: the
actualization of historical figures of the anti-Soviet direction, the romanticization of the Cossack
myth, the heroization of modern warriors. All of them have the own characteristics and sociohistorical conditioning.
Key words: hero, visualization, cinematography, image design.