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The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov : Figures of Paradox /
One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through contextualization and close readings of each of his f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Directors' Cuts
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| Temas: |
Sokurov, Aleksandr 1951- / Criticism and interpretation
> Sokurov, Aleksandr 1951- / Critique et interprétation / Sokurov, Aleksandr 1951-
> Motion picture producers and directors / Russia (Federation)
> Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma / Russie
> Cinéma / Russie
> Paradoxes / Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: The Fragment and the Infinite, or, the Hypothesis of the Third Term in the Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
- 1. Lonely Voice of Man: Singular Murmurs, Multiple Echoes
- 2. Mournful Insensitivity: The Apocalypse of the Modern
- 3. Days of the Eclipse: 'Adieu, Babylone'; Adieu, Tarkovsky
- 4. Save and Protect: Of Angels and Flies
- 5. The Second Circle: Winter, Light, and the Intimate Sublime
- 6. The Stone: No Way Home
- 7. Whispering Pages: Death, Nothingness, Memory
- 8. Mother and Son: Time Abolished, Time Transfigured
- 9. Moloch: Adi (and Eve): Fear Eats the Soul
- 10. Taurus: 'Father, where art thou?'
- 11. Russian Ark: Imperial Elegy
- 12. Father and Son: Beyond Absolute Intimacy
- 13. The Sun: Iconoclastic Humanism
- 14. Alexandra: The Return to Neverwas and the Ambiguity of Romance
- 15. Faust: Sokurov Waltz
- Postscript. On the Poetics of Space in Sokurov's Tetralogy (Moloch/Taurus/ The Sun/Faust)
- Conclusion. The (Im)Possibility of an Island
- Postface
- Addendum A: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2005
- Addendum B: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2013
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index