Literature

The Filmmaker's Philosopher

Management No. BFM012288

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Contents: List of Figures = vi Acknowledgements = vii Notes on Transliteration and Translation = ix Introduction: The Freest Man in the USSR = 1 1. Alexander Sokurov’s Demoted (1980): Consciousness as Celebration = 30 2. Ivan Dykhovichnyi’s The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of Idleness = 57 3. Dmitry Mamuliya’s Another Sky (2010): The Language of Consciousness = 78 4. Alexei Balabanov’s The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death of Form = 100 5. Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the Earthly = 124 6. Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze’s The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor for Consciousness = 147 Conclusion: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of Film = 160 Appendix = 177 Bibliography = 181 Indes = 196