Artistic Trends in Children Cinema of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Abstract

This article is dedicated to modern children cinema of Kazakhstan: themes, subjects and characters. The authors consider children films as well as such branches of film industry like “art cinema” and “auteur cinematography” with children and teenagers the main characters. Applying comparative and contrastive analysis, the authors of this article distinguish major artistic mainstreams in the field of children cinema and films dedicated to children and juveniles in the period from 1991 to 2013.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s4p95