The cinema of Alexander Sokurov
By: edited by Birgit Beumers and Nancy Condee
Series: KINO : the Russian and Soviet cinema series; KINO, the Russian cinema series
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781848853430; 9781848859067
Subjects: Motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: Studies the work of Russian motion picture director Aleksandr Sokurov, covering his documentaries, early films and literary adaptations, his trilogy on leaders, and "Russian Ark".
Notes: Filmography: p. [245]-252.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: Documentary beginnings --; title: Sokurov's documentaries  -- Jeremy Hicks; title: Sokurov's film portraits  -- Eva Binder; title: Sokurov's cinematic minimalism  -- Sabine Hänsgen -- Part II; title: Borderlines : geographical, literary and cinematic --; title: Intertextual visions of the Potudan  -- Nariman Skakov; title: Living and dying in Sokurov's border zones : Days of eclipse  -- Julian Graffy; title: Medium intimacy  -- Robert Bird -- Part III; title: Intimate encounters --; title: Truncated families and absolute intimacy  -- Mikhail Iampolski; title: A day in the life : historical representation in Sokurov's "power" tetralogy  -- Denise J. Youngblood; title: History, alienation and the (failed) cinema of embodiment : Sokurov's tetralogy  -- Stephen Hutchings -- Part IV; title: Remapping the empire --; title: Crowd control : anxiety of effluence in Sokurov's Russian ark  -- José Alaniz; title: And the ark sails on ...  -- Birgit Beumers; title: Endstate and allegory  -- Nancy Condee -- Part V; title: Russian responses --; title: Script--sound---editing --; title: Film reviews --; title: The oeuvre.