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New records of handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Endomychidae) in Bulgaria

(Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", 2026-07-09) Gradinarov, Denis; Petrova, Yana; Sivilov, Ognyan

New data on the distribution of the species Endomychus coccineus (Linnaeus, 1758), Hylaia reissi Csiki, 1911, Lycoperdina pulvinata Reitter, 1884, L. succincta (Linnaeus, 1767), Mycetina cruciata (Schaller, 1783) and Mycetaea subterranea (Fabricius, 1801) (Coleoptera: Endomychidae) in Bulgaria are presented.

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PANTOMIME AS A COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SOUND FILMS AND TALKIES

(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Marinov, Angel

The present research paper focuses on Charlie Chaplin’s sound films and talkies, emphasizing the role of pantomime as a communicative strategy in the context of the transition from silent to talking cinema and the subsequent sound-visual synthesis. Based on a number of research studies and the autorsown observations, the text offers a structural and comparative analysis of the following films: “City Lights”, “Modern Times”, “The Great Dictator”, “Monsieur Verdoux”, “Limelight” and “A King in New York”. It represents an original interpretation on how pantomime predominates or is combined in balance with speech, musical theme and sound effects. Attention is paid on Chaplin's desire to preserve the identity of his main character, the Tramp, through a dominant visual expression, despite the emergence of dialog and sound in film. The text traces Chaplin’s subsequent introduction of an innovative model – one displaying an effective combination between pantomime and speech and sound in the film, which confirms the unique communicative style of his films. Up to the present, this approach has attracted not only the interest of various theorists, critics and researchers, but it has also had broad practical significance for the development of film art.

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HOW TO USE THE CAMERA TO CONTINUE THЕ WRITING. “THE TALES OF HOFFFMANN” THROUGH THE LENS OF DIFFERENT MEDIA – ON STAGE, IN FILM AND ON TELEVISION

(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Gimpel, Derek

E. T. A. Hoffmann’s fantastic stories are, due to their complexity, structure and subject matter the source of many adaptions and reworkings. One of the most popular of these is Jaques Offenbach’s opera „Les contes d‘Hoffmann“, itself n adaption of the original theatre play which was also the inspiration for many other television and cinema adaptions. Narrative techniques and storytelling motives demand different approaches from the various media. An in depth study of ‘Eyeglasses’ (Der Sandman / Olympia Act) and ‘Appearance’ (Rat Krespel / Antonia Act), will reveal how these elements function and are depicted in the various media.

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VISIONS OF THE CLASSICAL FORM IN LYUBOMIR DALCHEV’S SCULPTURE

(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Dekova, Galina

This article aims to examine the artistic evolution of the prominent Bulgarian sculptor Lyubomir Dalchev – from his early fascination with symbolism and his explorations of the realistic form to his later modernist stylized human figures. Always rooted in the human form, Dalchev succeeds in modernizing the understanding of socialist realism to such an extent that the concept itself becomes meaningless. His education in Rome and Paris during the interwar period laid the foundation for the later development of his artistic language. The article pays special attention to the image of the male body in his work and, through the analysis of several examples from different periods, explores how the treatment of the male figure distances the author from the ideological use of the image.

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DIPLOMATIC AND CONFERENCE INTERPRETERS IN BULGARIA IN THE FIRST DECADES FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 9, 1944

(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Naimushin, Boris

This article is part of an undefended and unpublished dissertation on the history of diplomatic interpreting in Bulgaria from 1944 to 1974, in comparison with the Soviet Union, the United States, Cuba, Romania, and Hungary. Based on archival documents, memoirs, interviews, media reports, photographs, and newsreels, this text traces the efforts of Bulgaria and the USSR to address the situation arising from the shortage of experienced diplomats and diplomatic interpreters following the purges in the USSR in the 1930s and in Bulgaria after the coup of 9 September 1944.