Cinema & AI.. .educational masterpieces

Abstract

Background. Where is the profit-driven business leading the foundations of theatre and cinematic art? The share of arthouse cinema compared to mass film production is steadily declining. The reasons lie in the thirst for enrichment through indulgence in the slogan known since antiquity, "Bread and circuses!" Increasingly, preference is given not to the play of emotions conveyed through the language of cinema, but to the display of muscles, endless blockbusters filled with the destruction of machinery and buildings, bestial instincts, hordes of undead zombies etc. All this resembles a kind of invocation of real cataclysms - a visual spell, an ominous croaking - according to the images and likeness of which a truly horrific reality later emerges. How does all this affect the educational process?

Methods. General scientific (analysis-synthesis-forecast), philological, comparative, intermedial; elements of the essayistic style have also been used.

Results. In the era of total visualization and informational oversaturation, interest in reading is generally declining. Both in secondary and higher education, students increasingly rely on condensed summaries of literary works, which the internet abundantly provides alongside intrusive, aggressive advertisements promoting gambling, pornography, easy earnings through dubious schemes, fraud, and even betrayal of the homeland.

How can this be countered? Long-term practice has shown that one of the effective measures, at least in the education of humanities students, is to assign reading of a work from our classical literature, followed by viewing a film adaptation of that work, and conducting a comparative analysis of the literary text's transformation into a cinematic text. This approach allows students to engage with the literary original and its representation in a related art form, while also actively combating the widespread illiteracy that continues to progress in society.

Conclusions. The latest syncretism of different art forms has existed in our culture for over a century. However, film dramaturgy, a type of dramaturgy as a literary genre, still does not feature in the literary-artistic genre classification. While dramaturgy is studied both in connection with its theatrical realization and independently, film dramaturgy remains largely "invisible", even in an era of comprehensive visual information saturation.

Like any innovation, artificial intelligence has its advantages and disadvantages. Its use in the educational process, in particular for writing comparative reviews, often becomes a form of procrastination. This state of knowledge acquisition is also caused by the unnatural conditions of the current educational process, which takes place online and offline and is interrupted by constant air alarms, power and heat outages, and migrations. Consequently, the role of moral responsibility increases, as does the importance of careful verification and detection of signs of negligent delegation of creative work to a machine.