The cinema of Alexander Sokurov
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The cinema of Alexander Sokurov
（KINO the Russian cinema series）
I.B. Tauris, 2011
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Filmography: p. [245]-252
Bibliography: p. [253]-255
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Alexander Sokurov's 'Russian Ark' is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russia's cultural history through a single, 90-minute take. Yet this film is but one milestone in the work of this versatile director. Since the 1990s, Sokurov's films have had international recognition at film festivals and through foreign distribution. In this, the first English-language book to cover Sokurov's full oeuvre, leading scholars on Sokurov unravel his work on documentaries; his early films and literary adaptations; his trilogy on leaders focussing on the decaying body; his films on passing youth and approaching age; and, of course, 'Russian Ark'. The book also provides samples of the major Russian-language studies of Sokurov's films to provide the reader with an insight into Russian approaches to Sokurov.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface: Liubov Arkus (St Petersburg)
Introduction: Beumers and Condee
1 Sokurov and the documentary
Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London): Sokurov's Documentaries
Eva Binder (Innsbruck): The Film Portraits of Aleksandr Sokurov
Sabine Hansgen (Koeln): 'Still Images': On Aleksandr Sokurov's cinematic minimalism
2 Literary and cinematic affinities
Julian Graffy (UCL): Border zones in the feature films
Nariman Skakov (Princeton): Intertextual Visions of Potudan
Robert Bird (Chicago): Medium Intimacy
3 Intimate Encounters
Misha Yampolski (New York): Truncated Families and absolute intimacy
Denise Youngblood (Vermont): A Day in the Life: Historical Representation in Sokurov's 'Power' Tetralogy
Stephen Hutchings (Manchester): History, Alienation and the (Failed) Cinema of Embodiment: Sokurov's Tetralogy
4 Remapping the Empire
Jose Alaniz (Washington): Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov's 'Russian Ark'
Birgit Beumers (Bristol): A journey through the Empire: Russian Ark
Nancy Condee (Pittsburgh): Alexandra
5 Russian Responses
Single film reviews
Maya Turovskaya, How is it with me when every noise appals me? What hands are here?
Petr Bagrov, On Music - However Strange
Oleg Kovalov, We and The Lonely Voice
Script-Sound-Editing
Yuri Arabov, The Director Becomes the Author
Vladimir Persov, This is a Process
Leda Semenova, Montage is the Final Approximation to the Idea
Works
Sergei Dobrotvorsky The City and the House
Mikhail Trofimenkov Sokurov in the Struggle with Reality
PLAKHOV Vlastiteli i tirany
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