The Filmmaker’s Philosopher : : Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema / / Alyssa DeBlasio.

Traces the influence of Soviet philosopher Merab Mamardashvili on a generation of Soviet and Russian filmmakersShortlisted for the 2020 AATSEEL Best Book in Cultural Studies awardThe first study of Mamardashvili’s significant influence on cinema, culture and philosophy in RussiaOffers a compelling a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction: The Freest Man in the USSR
  • 1. Alexander Sokurov’s Demoted (1980): Consciousness as Celebration
  • 2. Ivan Dykhovichnyi’s The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of Idleness
  • 3. Dmitry Mamuliya’s Another Sky (2010): The Language of Consciousness
  • 4. Alexei Balabanov’s The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death of Form
  • 5. Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the Earthly
  • 6. Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze’s The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor for Consciousness
  • Conclusion: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of Film
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index