The films of Andrei Tarkovsky / edited by Sergei Toymentsev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toymentsev, Sergei, Author.

Contributor:

Toymentsev, Sergey, editor.

Series:

ReFocus. The international directors series.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

ReFocus. The international directors series

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Soviet Union.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Despite an output of only 7 feature films in 20 years, Andrei Tarkovsky has had a profound influence on international cinema. Famous for their spiritual depth and incredible visual beauty, his films have gained cult status among cineastes and are often included in ranking polls and charts dedicated to the 'best movies ever made'. Beginning with the late 1980s, Tarkovsky's highly complex cinema has continuously attracted scholarly attention by generating countless hermeneutic challenges and possibilities for film critics. This book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars. It examines Tarkovsky's cinematic techniques and his treatment of genre, landscape and sound and offers highly original interpretations of his oeuvre in the context of film aesthetics, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural studies and art history.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky

Part I Backgrounds

Introduction

1. Tarkovsky's Childhood: Between Trauma and Myth

2. Trava-Travlya-Trata: Tarkovsky's Psychobiography à la Lettre

3. Does Tarkovsky Have a Film Theory?

Part II Film Method

4. The Child's Eye View of War in Ivan's Childhood

5. The Truth of Direct Observation: Andrei Rublev and the Documentary Style of Soviet Cinema in the 1960s

6. Temporality and the Long Take in Stalker

7. Framing Infinity in Tarkovsky's Nostalghia

8. Approaching the Irreal: Realistic Sound Design in Andrei Tarkovsky's Films

Part III Theoretical Approaches

9. Andrei Tarkovsky, Or the Thing from Inner Space

10. Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination

11. The Flesh of Time: Solaris and the Chiasmic Image

12. Cinema as Spiritual Exercise: Tarkovsky and Hadot

13. Memory and Trace

Part IV Legacy

14. Zvyagintsev and Tarkovsky: Influence, Depersonalization, and Autonomy

15. Von Trier and Tarkovsky: From Antithesis to Counter-sublime

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3726-5

1-4744-9534-6

1-4744-3725-7

OCLC:

1245666918