Cinema of Alexander Sokurov.
Title:
Cinema of Alexander Sokurov.
Author:
Beumers, Birgit.
ISBN:
9780857720733
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Series:
KINO - the Russian Cinema
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Birgit Beumers and Nancy Condee -- Part I Documentary Beginnings -- Chapter 1 Sokurov's Documentaries -- Jeremy Hicks -- Chapter 2 Sokurov's Film Portraits -- Eva Binder -- Chapter 3 Sokurov's Cinematic Minimalism -- Sabine Hänsgen -- Part II Borderlines: Geographical, Literary and Cinematic -- Chapter 4 Intertextual Visions of the Potudan -- Nariman Skakov -- Chapter 5 Living and Dying in Sokurov's Border Zones: Days of Eclipse -- Julian Graffy -- Chapter 6 Medium Intimacy -- Robert Bird -- Part III Intimate Encounters -- Chapter 7 Truncated Families and Absolute Intimacy -- Mikhail Iampolski -- Chapter 8 A Day in the Life: Historical Representation in Sokurov's 'Power' Tetralogy -- Denise J. Youngblood -- Chapter 9 History, Alienation and the (Failed) Cinema of Embodiment: Sokurov's Tetralogy -- Stephen Hutchings -- Part IV Remapping the Empire -- Chapter 10 Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov's Russian Ark -- José Alaniz -- Chapter 11 And the Ark Sails on ... -- Birgit Beumers -- Chapter 12 Endstate and Allegory -- Nancy Condee -- Part V Russian Responses -- Script-Sound-Editing -- 1. Yuri Arabov: The Director Becomes the Author -- 2. Vladimir Persov: This is a Process -- 3. Leda Semenova: Montage is the Final Approximation to the Idea -- Film Reviews -- 4. Oleg Kovalov: We in The Lonely Voice -- 5. Maya Turovskaya: 'How is it with me when every noise appals me? What hands are here? -- 6. Petr Bagrov: On Music - However Strange -- The Oeuvre -- 7. Sergei Dobrotvorsky: The City and the House -- 8. Mikhail Trofimenkov: Sokurov in the Struggle with Reality -- 9. Andrei Plakhov: Rulers and Tyrants -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russia's cultural history through a single, 90-minute take._x000D_ _x000D_ Yet this film is but one milestone in the work of this versatile director. Since the 1990s, Sokurov's films have had international recognition at film festivals and through foreign distribution. In this, the first English-language book to cover Sokurov's full oeuvre, leading scholars on Sokurov unravel his work on documentaries; his early films and literary adaptations; his trilogy on leaders focussing on the decaying body; his films on passing youth and approaching age; and, of course, Russian Ark. The book also provides samples of the major Russian-language studies of Sokurov's films to provide the reader with an insight into Russian approaches to Sokurov._x000D_.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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