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Book Synopsis The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov by : Jeremi Szaniawski
Download or read book The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov written by Jeremi Szaniawski and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Russian Ark written by Birgit Beumers and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de Custine as he wandered through the vast Winter Palace in St. Petersburg--and through three hundred years of Russian history. This companion to Russian Ark addresses all key aspects of the film, beginning with a comprehensive synopsis, an in-depth analysis, and an account of the production history. Birgit Beumers goes on from there to discuss the work that went into the now-legendary Steadicam shot--which required two thousand actors and three orchestras--and she also offers an account of the film's critical and public reception, showing how it helped to establish director Aleksandr Sokurov as perhaps the leading filmmaker in Russia today.
Book Synopsis The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov by : Birgit Beumers
Download or read book The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov written by Birgit Beumers and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.
Book Synopsis The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov by : Birgit Beumers
Download or read book The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov written by Birgit Beumers and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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 unrave.
Book Synopsis The Imperial Trace by : Nancy Condee
Download or read book The Imperial Trace written by Nancy Condee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four and a half centuries. Examining a host of films from contemporary Russian cinema, Nancy Condee argues that we cannot make sense of current Russian culture without accounting for the region's habits of imperial identification. But is this something made legible through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the conditions of production, or the preoccupations of its filmmakers? This expansive study takes up this complex question through a commanding analysis of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period auteurists, Kira Muratova, Vadim Abdrashitov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, Aleksandr Sokurov and Aleksei Balabanov.
Book Synopsis The Heart of Russia in Cinema by : Pino Viscusi
Download or read book The Heart of Russia in Cinema written by Pino Viscusi and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pino Viscusi, poet and literate lent to cinema, in this fourth essay presents important iconographic material to testimony of his passion for revisiting literary texts, paintings, and movie classics all seen as authentic expression of and recurrent need for the spirituality of the "Russian Soul", since the time of its evangelism.
Book Synopsis Mythopoetic Cinema by : Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Download or read book Mythopoetic Cinema written by Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a critical practice that questions the constant need to provide new identities, a new Europe, and with it a new European cinema after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mythopoetic cinema questions the perpetual branding of movements, ideas, and individuals. Examining the work of Jean-Luc Godard, Alexander Sokurov, Marina Abramović, and Theodoros Angelopoulos, Ravetto-Biagioli argues that these disparate artists provide a critical reflection on what constitutes Europe in the age of neoliberalism. Their films reflect not only the violence of recent years but also help question dominant models of nation building that result in the general failure to respond ethically to rising ethnocentrism. In close readings of such films as Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002) and Godard's Notre Musique (2004), Ravetto-Biagioli demonstrates the ways in which these filmmakers engage and evaluate the recent reconceptualization of Europe's borders, mythic figures, and identity paradoxes. Her work not only analyzes how these filmmakers thematically treat the idea of Europe but also how their work questions the ability of the moving image to challenge conventional ways of understanding history.
Book Synopsis Aleksandr Sokurov by : Alvaro Machado
Download or read book Aleksandr Sokurov written by Alvaro Machado and published by Editora Cosac Naify. This book was released on 2002 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este livro apresenta o novo mestre do cinema russo, continuador das tradições de Dovjenko, Eisenstein e Tarkóvski. Seu estilo, definido como 'espiritual', é feito de composições visuais antinaturalistas e influenciadas pela pintura romântica, e por uma arquitetura sonora que mescla sons naturais a partituras clássicas. Além de uma introdução ao conjunto de sua obra, com mais de 40 títulos, o volume traz ensaio de Laymert Garcia dos Santos sobre o ousado plano-seqüência de 96 minutos para o filme Arca russa, realizado no interior do museu do Hermitage, e entrevista com o diretor por Leon Cakoff, diretor da Mostra de Cinema Internacional de São Paulo, que em 2002 homenageou o diretor com uma retrospectiva de sua obra.
Book Synopsis International Index to Film Periodicals by :
Download or read book International Index to Film Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Russian Ark written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documentary reveals how the unique feature-length Russian Ark was created in a single take: Alexander Sokurov's extraordinary masterpiece is a unique journey through time and Russian history. Filmed entirely in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, this groundbreaking film recreates 300 years of history in a single, unedited, feature length take. Sokurov's camera glides through 33 rooms of the Hermitage, covering three centuries of Russian history and European art. Everything unspools in one single, unbroken travelling shot, moving sinuously around the museum, roaming down corridors, nosing into chambers, peering up and down stairwells - encountering scenes from Russian history from the 17th to the early pre-Revolutionary 20th centuries: from Peter the Great to Nicholas. It is acted out by battalions of players and musicians in full costume. And all of it seamless; not a single cut or edit. Cinematographer Tilman Büttner had to carry a specially modified Steadicam capable of recording up to 100 minutes of high-definition video on to a hard disk. Russian Ark is a fluid dream-epic with no special effects. What you see is what you get. If there had been a single mistake, if someone had fallen over or if a door was jammed - or if the camera had blundered across a mirror or reflective surface - then Sokurov and his army of actors would have had to go right back to first positions. .
Book Synopsis 501 Movie Directors by : Steven Jay Schneider
Download or read book 501 Movie Directors written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to all the movie directors you should know before it is too late.
Book Synopsis Sense of Emptiness by : Pernilla Hallonsten
Download or read book Sense of Emptiness written by Pernilla Hallonsten and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human perception is often believed to function holistically, especially in the tradition of Gestalt psychology, involving a focused item and its surrounding. This holistic approach can allow us to explain something that is not directly experienced in our perception, meaning that the absence as well as the presence of something can have a significant impact on how we perceive the world. The way we perceive the presence is more or less the same cross-culturally, but the prominence of the absence, or what is termed emptiness in this volume, varies considerably from one culture to another. The aim of this volume is to identify what emptiness is like and how different cultures incorporate this concept from various perspectives. It turns out that emptiness plays a key role in identifying socio-cultural diversity in a broader sense, including arts and languages. This volume consists of contributions from different fields covering a wide range of topics such as history, literary studies, mythology, film studies, architecture, linguistics, social-anthropology, ethnology and cognitive science. Due to the range covered in this volume, studies presented here are highly interdisciplinary, but all chapters deal with the sense of emptiness, which suggest that the underlying idea of the significance of emptiness is pervasive. Yet, this topic has not previously been systematically compared across different disciplines. It is hoped that this volume will offer a first overview of the pervasiveness and integration of disciplines concerning the sense of emptiness.
Book Synopsis Russia and Its Other(s) on Film by : Stephen Hutchings
Download or read book Russia and Its Other(s) on Film written by Stephen Hutchings and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume applies two fashionable theoretical paradigms--"The Other" and "intercultural dialogue"--to Russian film and television.
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Download or read book The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Newsnotes on Soviet and East European Drama and Theatre by : Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
Download or read book Newsnotes on Soviet and East European Drama and Theatre written by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
