The filmmaker's philosopher : Merab Mamardashvili and Russian cinema / Alyssa DeBlasio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeBlasio, Alyssa, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mamardashvili, Merab.

Motion pictures--Russia (Federation)--History.

Motion pictures.

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Russia (Federation).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Exploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation - including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: The Freest Man in the USSR

1. Alexander Sokurov’s Demoted (1980): Consciousness as Celebration

2. Ivan Dykhovichnyi’s The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of Idleness

3. Dmitry Mamuliya’s Another Sky (2010): The Language of Consciousness

4. Alexei Balabanov’s The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death of Form

5. Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the Earthly

6. Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze’s The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor for Consciousness

Conclusion: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of Film

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7663-5

1-4744-4450-4

OCLC:

1306539909