Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema: Music and Meaning from Solaris to the Sacrifice

ISBN-13: 9781032083773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Tobias Pontara

Opis

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) through an exploration of the presence of music and sound in his films.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Interpreting Tarkovsky’s Cinema through its Music

Chapter 2: Bach at the Space Station: Diegetic Ambiguities and Multiplying Gaps in Solaris

Chapter 3: Memories, Dreams and Mysteries: Music and Dimensions of Human Experience in Mirror

Chapter 4: Beethoven Overcome: Transcendence and Utopia in Stalker

Chapter 5: Musical Offerings, Soothing Sounds and Sacrificial Acts: Managing the Nostalgia of Nostalghia

Chapter 6: The Voice of Truth: Liminal Music, Spiritual Authenticity and Gradual Awakening in The Sacrifice

Chapter 7: Music, Meaning and Troubled Utopias in Tarkovsky’s Cinema

Appendix: The Structure of Mirror

O autorze

Tobias Pontara is Professor in Musicology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.