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 :
Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Directors' cuts.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 feature fiction films (broaching many of his documentaries in the process), this volume unearths a vision of Sokurov's films as equally mournful and passionate, intellectual, and sensual, and also identifies in them a powerful, if discursively repressed, queer sensitivity, alongside a pattern of. |
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Notas: | "A Wallflower Press book"--Title page verso |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0231850522 9780231850520 |