Overview

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.

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Author:   Birgit Beumers ,  Nancy Condee
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781848859067

ISBN 10:   1848859066
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 October 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Contents Preface: Liubov Arkus (St Petersburg) Introduction: Beumers and Condee 1 Sokurov and the documentary Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London): Sokurov's Documentaries Eva Binder (Innsbruck): The Film Portraits of Aleksandr Sokurov Sabine Hansgen (Koeln): 'Still Images': On Aleksandr Sokurov's cinematic minimalism 2 Literary and cinematic affinities Julian Graffy (UCL): Border zones in the feature films Nariman Skakov (Princeton): Intertextual Visions of Potudan Robert Bird (Chicago): Medium Intimacy 3 Intimate Encounters Misha Yampolski (New York): Truncated Families and absolute intimacy Denise Youngblood (Vermont): A Day in the Life: Historical Representation in Sokurov's 'Power' Tetralogy Stephen Hutchings (Manchester): History, Alienation and the (Failed) Cinema of Embodiment: Sokurov's Tetralogy 4 Remapping the Empire Jose Alaniz (Washington): Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov's 'Russian Ark' Birgit Beumers (Bristol): A journey through the Empire: Russian Ark Nancy Condee (Pittsburgh): Alexandra 5 Russian Responses Single film reviews Maya Turovskaya, How is it with me when every noise appals me? What hands are here? Petr Bagrov, On Music - However Strange Oleg Kovalov, We and The Lonely Voice Script-Sound-Editing Yuri Arabov, The Director Becomes the Author Vladimir Persov, This is a Process Leda Semenova, Montage is the Final Approximation to the Idea Works Sergei Dobrotvorsky The City and the House Mikhail Trofimenkov Sokurov in the Struggle with Reality PLAKHOV Vlastiteli i tirany

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Birgit Beumers is Reader in the Russian Department at Bristol University. Her publications include Burnt by the Sun (I.B.Tauris, 2000) and Nikita Mikhalkov (I.B.Tauris, 2004), Pop Culture Russia! and A History of Russian Cinema. She is editor of Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema (I.B.Tauris, 1999) and The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (24 Frames). She is also editor of the online journal KinoKultura and of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Tauris KINO Series. Nancy Condee is Professor of Slavic Studies and member of the Film Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema as well as the edited and co-edited volumes Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia, and Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity. She is Executive Producer for the CD-Rom database on Russian cinema, Thaw Cinema.

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