[PDF] Andrei Tarkovskys Sounding Cinema eBook

Author : Tobias Pontara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1000764109

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Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) through an exploration of the presence of music and sound in his films. The first comprehensive study in English concentrating on the soundtrack in Tarkovsky’s cinema, this book reveals how Tarkovsky’s use of electronic music, electronically manipulated sound, traditional folk songs and fragments of canonized works of Western art music plays into the philosophical, existential and ethical themes recurring throughout his work. Exploring the multilayered relationship between music, sound, film image and narrative space, Pontara provides penetrating and innovative close readings of Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986) and in turn deeply enriches critical understanding of Tarkovsky’s films and their relation to the broader traditions of European art cinema. An excellent resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in European art cinema and the role of music in film, as well as for film aficionados interested in Tarkovsky’s work.

Author : Thomas Redwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 144382240X

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“If you look for a meaning, you’ll miss everything that happens.” Almost twenty-five years after the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the mystery of his films remains alive and well. Recent years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of film theorists, critics and philosophers taking up the challenge to decipher what these films actually mean. But what do these films actually show us? In this study Thomas Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, Redwood succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated but often misunderstood masterpieces of narrative film. Tarkovsky is revealed here both as a cinematic thinker and as an artistic practitioner, a filmmaker of immense poetic significance for the history of cinema.

Author : Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1989-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292776241

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A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

Author : Sergei Toymentsev
Publisher : Refocus: The International Dir
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474437240

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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.

Author : Nariman Skakov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857730797

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The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means - that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time through coherent argument, Nariman Skakov proposes, rather he presents it and the viewer experiences the argument. This book explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema - from Ivan's Childhood (1962) to Sacrifice (1986). Dreams, visions, mirages, memories, revelations, reveries and delusions are phenomena which present alternative spatio-temporal patterns; they disrupt the linear progression of events and create narrative discontinuity. Each chapter is dedicated to the discussion of one of Tarkovsky's seven feature films and in each, one of these phenomena functions as a refrain. Skakov discusses the influence of the flow of and lapses in space and time on the viewer's perception of the Tarkovskian cinematic universe. He opens and closes his original and fascinating book on Tarkovsky's cinema by focusing on the phenomenon of time that is discussed extensively by the filmmaker in his main theoretical treatise Sculpting in Time, as well as in a number of interviews and public lectures.

Author : Robert Bird
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781861893420

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The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work has had an enormous influence on the style and structure of contemporary European film. This book is an original and comprehensive account of Tarkovsky's entire film output.

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415904575

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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jeremy Mark Robinson
Publisher : Crescent Moon Publishing
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN :

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A major new study of Russian filmmaker Ardrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including 'Mirror', 'Solaris' and 'The Sacrifice'. Exploring every aspect of his output, including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound, music, acting, themes, motifs and spirituality.

Author : Vida T. Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1994-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253208873

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"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films—a very difficult task in any case—must read it." —The Russian Review "This book is a model of contextual and textual analysis. . . . the Tarkovsky myth is stripped of many of its shibboleths and the thematic structure and coherence of his work is revealed in a fresh and stimulating manner." —Europe-Asia Studies "[This book,] with its wealth of new research and critical insight, has set the standard and should certainly inspire other writers to keep on trying to collectively explore the possible meanings of Tarkovsky's film world." —Canadian Journal of Film Studies "For Tarkovsky lovers as well as haters, this is an essential book. It might make even the haters reconsider." —Cineaste This definitive study, set in the context of Russian cultural history, throws new light on one of the greatest—and most misunderstood—filmmakers of the past three decades. The text is enhanced by more than 60 frame enlargements from the films.