ReFocus : : The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky / / Sergei Toymentsev.

Reassesses the work of the influential Russian filmmaker Andrei TarkovskySheds new light on Tarkovsky’s biography in connection to his filmsAssesses the director’s contributions to film theory and aesthetics by close analysis of his films and writingsOffers highly original interpretations of Tarkovs...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky
  • Part I. Backgrounds
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1. Tarkovsky’s Childhood: Between Trauma and Myth
  • 2. Trava-Travlya-Trata: Tarkovsky’s Psychobiography à la Lettre
  • 3. Does Tarkovsky Have a Film Theory?
  • Part II. Film Method
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 4. The Child’s Eye View of War in Ivan’s Childhood
  • 5. The Truth of Direct Observation: Andrei Rublev and the Documentary Style of Soviet Cinema in the 1960s
  • 6. Temporality and the Long Take in Stalker
  • 7. Framing Infinity in Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia
  • 8. Approaching the Irreal: Realistic Sound Design in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films
  • Part III. Theoretical Approaches
  • Introduction to Part III
  • 9. Andrei Tarkovsky, Or the Thing from Inner Space
  • 10. Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination
  • 1 1. The Flesh of Time: Solaris and the Chiasmic Image
  • 12. Cinema as Spiritual Exercise: Tarkovsky and Hadot
  • 13. Memory and Trace
  • Part IV. Legacy
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • 14. Zvyagintsev and Tarkovsky: Influence, Depersonalization, and Autonomy
  • 15. Von Trier and Tarkovsky: From Antithesis to Counter-sublime
  • Index