The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
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The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Figures of Paradox

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eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Figures of Paradox

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
WallFlower Press
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780231850520
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents 
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: The Fragment and the Infinite, or, the Hypothesis of the Third Term in the Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
  9. 1. Lonely Voice of Man: Singular Murmurs, Multiple Echoes
  10. 2. Mournful Insensitivity: The Apocalypse of the Modern
  11. 3. Days of the Eclipse: ‘Adieu, Babylone’; Adieu, Tarkovsky
  12. 4. Save and Protect: Of Angels and Flies
  13. 5. The Second Circle: Winter, Light, and the Intimate Sublime
  14. 6. The Stone: No Way Home
  15. 7. Whispering Pages: Death, Nothingness, Memory
  16. 8. Mother and Son: Time Abolished, Time Transfigured
  17. 9. Moloch: Adi (and Eve): Fear Eats the Soul
  18. 10. Taurus: ‘Father, where art thou?’
  19. 11. Russian Ark: Imperial Elegy
  20. 12. Father and Son: Beyond Absolute Intimacy
  21. 13. The Sun: Iconoclastic Humanism
  22. 14. Alexandra: The Return to Neverwas and the Ambiguity of Romance
  23. 15. Faust: Sokurov Waltz
  24. Postscript: On the Poetics of Space in Sokurov’s Tetralogy (Moloch/Taurus/ The Sun/Faust)
  25. Conclusion
  26. Postface
  27. Addendum A: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2005
  28. Addendum B: interview with Alexander Sokurov, 2013
  29. Filmography
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index