Archive
Archive
The archive serves as the magazine's table of contents. It lists every section with a short description and explains what happened to the old addresses left on the domain by the former site. If you arrived through one of those old links, this page will help you find your way.
Every long story has its own archive, a record of what has already happened to the characters. So does a magazine: it's the list of what we've managed to write about so far.
Magazine sections
- Home: about the magazine, four ways into the subject and a way to read a series from its first episode.
- Articles: the magazine's six main threads and the catalogue of standalone articles for the English edition.
- History: a three-point timeline and an account of how serialized stories reached the screen.
- People & roles: who makes a series, from writer to composer, and the two names from the timeline.
- Collections: paths through the forms and a short route for newcomers.
- Events: formats of gatherings about series and film, and a plan for a home viewing club.
- Close looks: a step-by-step breakdown of an episode and a table of its elements.
- What's new: what has appeared and been updated in the magazine itself.
- Sequels: a reference note at an archive address on follow-ups, prequels and franchises (in Russian).
- Adaptations: a reference note at an archive address on bringing a book to the screen (in Russian).
- Sitcoms: a reference note at an archive address on how situation comedy works (in Russian).
How the archive addresses work
The domain used to host a catalogue of films and series with individual entry pages. Those pages have not survived, and we do not restore their contents: there are no descriptions, videos or viewing links here, and the titles of the former entries are not given. Three of the old addresses now lead to the magazine's reference notes on sequels, screen adaptations and situation comedy.
The section of the former catalogue that collected new arrivals has not been restored either. Its address now opens the What's new page, which records what has appeared and been updated here, not what has come out in cinemas. The unrelated spam pages that later appeared on the domain have been removed and will not return.
Read next
- Home
A magazine about storytelling in parts: where series came from, how seasons and episodes work, and what drives sequels and adaptations.
- Articles
The magazine's main threads and a catalogue of standalone articles written specifically for the English edition.
- What's new
What has recently appeared or been updated in the magazine itself: sections, the glossary of terms, close looks.
- Sequels (in Russian)
A reference note at an old address: how a sequel differs from a prequel, reboot and franchise, and what a follow-up must not lose.
- Adaptations (in Russian)
A reference note at an old address: what a text loses and gains on its way to the screen, and how to compare book and adaptation.
- Sitcoms (in Russian)
A reference note at an old address: what holds a situation comedy together: a fixed setting, familiar characters, self-contained episodes.
Sources
- Reference works on the history of literature and film
- Glossaries of TV and screenwriting terms (in general terms)
Historical facts are based on reference works on the history of literature and film. Different schools read the terms of dramatic writing a little differently, so we explain them in general terms and without tying them to specific productions.