Overview

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.

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Author:   Sergey Toymentsev (Assistant Professor of Russian, Saint Louis University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474437240

ISBN 10:   1474437249
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of contributorsIntroduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky Introduction to Part I 1. Tarkovsky’s Childhood: Between Trauma and Myth - Evgeniy Tsymbal2. Trava-Travlya-Trata: Tarkovsky’s Psychobiography à la Lettre - Andrei Gornykh3. Does Tarkovsky Have a Film Theory? - Sergey Toymentsev Introduction to Part II 4. The Child’s Eye View of War in Ivan’s Childhood, by Sara Pankenier Weld5. The Truth of Direct Observation: Andrei Rublev and the Documentary Style of Soviet Cinema in the 1960s - Zdenko Mandušić6. Temporality and the Long Take in Stalker - Donato Totaro7. Framing Infinity in Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia - Yelizaveta Goldfarb Moss8. Approaching the Irreal: Realistic Sound Design in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films - Julia Shpinitskaya Introduction to Part III 9. Andrei Tarkovsky, Or the Thing from the Inner Space - Slavoj Žižek10. Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination - Linda Belau & Ed Cameron11. The Flesh of Time: Solaris and the Chiasmic Image - Robert Efird12. Cinema as Spiritual Exercise: Tarkovsky and Hadot - Anne Eakin Moss13. Memory and Trace - Mikhail Iampolski Introduction to Part IV 14. Zvyagintsev and Tarkovsky: Influence, Depersonalization, and Autonomy - Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya15. Von Trier and Tarkovsky: from Antithesis to Counter-Sublime - Sergey Toymentsev and Anton Dolin

Reviews

"""ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky is an excellent new item in ReFocus: The International Directors Series, [...] a valuable collection that succeeds at avoiding deifying Tarkovskii and presents new theoretical perspectives on his work."" -Zoran Samardzija, Columbia College Chicago"

Author Information

Sergey Toymentsev is Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky (2021).

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