The Cinema of Béla Tarr : : The Circle Closes / / András Kovács.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kovács, András,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Directors' Cuts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 25

The Cinema of Béla Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship for more than twenty-five years. András Bálint Kovács traces the development of Tarr's themes, characters, and style, showing that almost all of his major stylistic and narrative innovations were already present in his early films and that through a conscious and meticulous recombination of and experimentation with these elements, Tarr arrived at his unique style. The significance of these films is that, beyond their aesthetic and historical value, they provide the most powerful vision of an entire region and its historical situation. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language, the shared feelings of millions of Eastern Europeans.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Persona -- 2. Style in the Early Years -- 3. The Tarr style -- 4. The Tarr style in Evolution -- 5. Narration in the Tarr Films -- 6. The Characters -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names