Szaniawski The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Figures of Paradox
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-85052-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films, this volume unearths a vision of Sokurov's film.

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

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
Postface
Addendum A: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2005
Addendum B: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2013
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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).