Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16734-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

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 tensions and paradoxes. This book thus offers new keys to understand the lasting and ever-renewed appeal of the Russian director's Janus-like and surprisingly dynamic cinema; a deeply original and complex body of work in dialogue with the past, the present and the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szaniawski, Jeremi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: The Fragment and the Infinite, or, the Hypothesis of the Third Term in the Cinema of Alexander Sokurov1. Lonely Voice of Man: Singular Murmurs, Multiple Echoes2. Mournful Insensitivity: The Apocalypse of the Modern3. Days of the Eclipse: 'Adieu, Babylone'; Adieu, Tarkovsky4. Save and Protect: Of Angels and Flies5. The Second Circle: Winter, Light, and the Intimate Sublime6. The Stone: No Way Home7. Whispering Pages: Death, Nothingness, Memory8. Mother and Son: Time Abolished, Time Transfigured9. Moloch: Adi (and Eve): Fear Eats the Soul10. Taurus: 'Father, where art thou?'11. Russian Ark: Imperial Elegy12. Father and Son: Beyond Absolute Intimacy13. The Sun: Iconoclastic Humanism14. Alexandra: The Return to Neverwas and the Ambiguity of Romance15. Faust: Sokurov WaltzPostscript On the Poetics of Space in Sokurov's Tetralogy (Moloch/Taurus/The Sun/Faust)ConclusionPostfaceAddendum A: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2005Addendum B: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2013FilmographyBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremi Szaniawski holds a PhD from Yale University, and is an award-winning independent filmmaker living and working in Los Angeles. He is also coeditor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium (2013).