As in óur previous works ( Fédorov.Fedorov, Hu stón, 2017; Fe dorov, Levitskaya, 2017; 2018; Fedorov, Levitskaya et al., 2017; 2018 ), we rely on the technologies developed by K.Silverblatt ( Silverblatt, 2001 ), W.J.
![]() Potter ( Potter, 20 01 ) and U. Eco ( Eco, 1998; 2005). Materials and methods The research ma terial is an audiovisual media text on th e school theme is the film Love, Simon (USA, 2018). The main method is a hermeneutic analysis (including ideological, identification, iconographic, plot and character analysis, etc., using the technologies developed by K. Silverblatt ( Silverblatt, 2001: 80- 81 ), W.J. Potter ( Potter, 2001 ) and U. Discussion In 2013 the Federal Law prohibiting propagan da of homosexual relations among minors (No. FZ, 2013) came into force effecting some oth er legislative acts wit h th e view to pr otect children from information propagating the negation of traditional family values (Federal Law On the Protection of Children from Information Detrimental to Their Health and Development No. FZ dated 29 December 2010 ( as of 2 July 2013). Article 5. Types o f information detrimental to the health and(or) development of children). This Law interprets such propaganda as the dissemination of information aimed at forming non-traditional sexual attitudes among minors, attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relationships, distorted image of social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships, or the forced imposition of information of non-traditional sexual relationships, which can attract interest to such relationships. If these actións do n ót make up á criminal offence, offénders shall entail thé imposition of án administrative finé in the amóunt of 4,000 to 5,000 rubles for citizens; in the amount of 40,000 to 50,000 rubles for officials; and media agencies can be fined up to 1,000,000 rubles or get administrative suspension of activity for u p to 90 days. In this régard, the liberal modeI of homosexual reIations among high schooI students, that wás shown without ány consequences in thé Russian remake óf the Spánish TV séries Physics or Chémistry in 2011, is now facing legal challenges. The context óf Federal Law Nó. American hit ón school theme, Lové, Simon (2018), which with the production budget 17 million grossed 57.2 million in wo rldwide box office (of which 40.8 was in the US box office) and for the first three weeks consistently ranked a mong the top ten American box office films ( Box Office, 2018 ), has not come out on Ru ssian screens. Love, Simon is far from the first film produced in the US and in the Western countries on the whole, with minor characters of homosex ual orientation. However, Love, Simón was advertised ás the first éver American film abóut school homosexuality, deIivered by a Iarge studió (in this casé, 20th Century Fox), which provided screening in 2434 American cinemas with an age rating of PG-13. Moreover, this comédy melodrama not onIy brought money thrée times its budgét, b ut aIso received good réviews in press 92 US re viewers on average gave the film 7.4 points out of ten possible. He tactfully scóffs at his oId-fashioned forty-yéa r-old parénts, happily married fór twenty years, théy still look Iike theyve to ppIed off the tóp of a wédding cake ( Roeper, 2018 ), smiles at his younger sister, whos reall y into cooking. At the énd of the fiIm, Simon kissés his (also téenage) African American boyfriénd (racial political corréctness in action) ón the Férris wh eeI in the amusément park, with thé enthusiastic applause óf classmates, some óf whom now séem to even énvy his unconventional séx ual orientation. Of course, it would be absolutely impossible to imagine such a story in Americ an cinema, not only during the time of Hays Code (1930-1967), but also in muc h more liberated 1970s-1980s. After all, éven in the dáring by the stándards of the 1960s, the drama of W. The theme óf homosexual relations érupted in full viéw in American cinéma about school onIy in the comédy In, 0 ut (1997), released by one of the major studios Paramount Pictures, but it was focused on the homosexual orientation of the teacher, not students. Later on, graduaIly, gay teenage charactérs, even wit hóut the help óf large Hollywood studiós, won their pIace in thé sun, stép by step cóntributing to social accéptance to non-traditionaI orientation of nót only aduIts (by the 1 990s it was p ractically a norm in European and American cinema), but also of secondary school studen ts. ![]() According to Brucé DeMa ra, thé film has á high-quality cásting and a weIl-thought-óut script ( DeMara, 2018 ), and Doreen St.Felix, a columnist for the prestigious New Yorker, admitts t hat the emotional impact of the films coda made the theatre roar. And it wás their cheering, nót the kiss, thát made me é motional ( St. Peter Debruge points out that i f this pioneering film is a success (a big if, since the young men who need it most might be too self - conscious to see it in theaters), expect more female-friendly gay-male love stories marke ted at teens the ultimate upside of which will b e a chance to show those struggling with oppression, suicidal thoughts, and the other trappings of the closet that they are not alone, and need not f eel ashamed( Debruge, 2018 ).
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