Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era

ISBN-13: 9781474425957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Vlad Strukov

Opis

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and interprets it through the framework of the symbolic mode.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: Abstracted Subjectivity and Knowledge-Worlds: Aleksandr Sokurov’s Taurus (2001); Chapter 2: The Lacking Sense of Cinema: Aleksandr Proshkin’s The Miracle (2009); Chapter 3: Gatekeepers of (Non-)Knowledge: Aleksei Balabanov’s Morphine (2008); Chapter 4: Symbolic Folds and Flattened Discourse: Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena (2010); Chapter 5: Non-Knowledge and the Symbolic Mode: Nikolai Khomeriki’s A Tale About Darkness (2009); Chapter 6: The World and the Event: Kirill Serebrennikov’s St. George’s Day (2008); Chapter 7: A Plea for the Dead (Self): Renata Litvinova’s Goddess: How I Fell in Love (2004); Chapter 8: Body in Crisis and Posthumous Subjectivity: Igor’ Voloshin’s Nirvana (2008); Chapter 9: The Difficulty of Being Dead: Aleksandr Veledinskii’s Alive (2006); Chapter 10: Intentionality and Modelled Subjectivities: Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls (2010); Chapter 11: Abandoned Being: Mikhail Kalatozishvili’s The Wild Field (2008); Chapter 12 & Conclusions; Amplifications of Subjectivity: Aleksandr Zel’dovich’s The Target (2010); Filmography; Bibliography; Index