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Despite an output of only 7 feature films in 20 years, Andrei Tarkovsky has had a profound influence on international cinema. Famous for their spiritual depth and incredible visual beauty, his films have gained cult status among cineastes and are often included in ranking polls and charts dedicated to the 'best movies ever made.' Beginning with the late 1980s, Tarkovsky's highly complex cinema has continuously attracted scholarly attention by generating countless hermeneutic challenges and possibilities for film critics.
This book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars. It examines Tarkovsky's cinematic techniques and his treatment of genre, landscape and sound, and offers highly original interpretations of his oeuvre in the context of film aesthetics, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural studies and art history.
Sergey Toymentsev is Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University.
List of contents
List of contributors; Introduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky; Introduction to Part I; 1: Tarkovsky's Childhood: Between Trauma and Myth, Evgeniy Tsymbal; 2: Trava-Travlya-Trata: Tarkovsky's Psychobiography à la Lettre, Andrei Gornykh; 3: Does Tarkovsky Have a Film Theory? Sergey Toymentsev; Introduction to Part II; 4: The Child's Eye View of War in Ivan's Childhood, Sara Pankenier Weld; 5: The Truth of Direct Observation: Andrei Rublev and the Documentary Style of Soviet Cinema in the 1960s, Zdenko ManduSic; 6: Temporality and the Long Take in Stalker, Donato Totaro; 7: Framing Infinity in Tarkovsky's Nostalghia, Yelizaveta Goldfarb Moss; 8: Approaching the Irreal: Realistic Sound Design in Andrei Tarkovsky's Films, Julia Shpinitskaya; Introduction to Part III; 9: Andrei Tarkovsky, Or the Thing from the Inner Space, Slavoj Zizek; 10: Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination, Linda Belau & Ed Cameron; 11: The Flesh of Time: Solaris and the Chiasmic Image, Robert Efird; 12: Cinema as Spiritual Exercise: Tarkovsky and Hadot, Anne Eakin Moss; 13: Memory and Trace, Mikhail Iampolski; Introduction to Part IV; 14: Zvyagintsev and Tarkovsky: Influence, Depersonalization, and Autonomy, Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya; 15: Von Trier and Tarkovsky: from Antithesis to Counter-Sublime, Sergey Toymentsev and Anton Dolin
About the author
Dr Sergei Toymentsev is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at Florida State University.
