The filmmaker's philosopher : Merab Mamardashvili and Russian cinema /
Exploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation - including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh University Press : Edinburgh University Press ; [2019] |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- INTRODUCTION The Freest Man in the USSR
- CHAPTER 1 Alexander Sokurov's Demoted (1980): Consciousness as Celebration
- CHAPTER 2 Ivan Dykhovichnyi's The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of Idleness
- CHAPTER 3 Dmitry Mamuliya's Another Sky (2010): The Language of Consciousness
- CHAPTER 4 Alexei Balabanov's The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death o
- 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
- CHAPTER 5 Alexander Zeldovich's Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the Ear
- CHAPTER 6 Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze's The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor fo
- CONCLUSION Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of Fi
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index