Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Birgit Beumers is Reader in the Russian Department at Bristol University. Her publications include Burnt by the Sun (I.B.Tauris, 2000) and Nikita Mikhalkov (I.B.Tauris, 2004), Pop Culture Russia! and A History of Russian Cinema. She is editor of Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema (I.B.Tauris, 1999) and The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (24 Frames). She is also editor of the online journal KinoKultura and of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Tauris KINO Series. Nancy Condee is Professor of Slavic Studies and member of the Film Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema as well as the edited and co-edited volumes Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia, and Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity. She is Executive Producer for the CD-Rom database on Russian cinema, Thaw Cinema.

• ContentsPreface: Liubov Arkus (St Petersburg)Introduction: Beumers and Condee1 Sokurov and the documentaryJeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London): Sokurov’s Documentaries Eva Binder (Innsbruck): The Film Portraits of Aleksandr Sokurov Sabine Hänsgen (Koeln): ‘Still Images’: On Aleksandr Sokurov’s cinematic minimalism 2 Literary and cinematic affinitiesJulian Graffy (UCL): Border zones in the feature films Nariman Skakov (Princeton): Intertextual Visions of Potudan Robert Bird (Chicago): Medium Intimacy3 Intimate EncountersMisha Yampolski (New York): Truncated Families and absolute intimacy Denise Youngblood (Vermont): A Day in the Life: Historical Representation in Sokurov’s ‘Power’ Tetralogy Stephen Hutchings (Manchester): History, Alienation and the (Failed) Cinema of Embodiment: Sokurov’s Tetralogy 4 Remapping the Empire Jose Alaniz (Washington): Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov’s ‘Russian Ark’ Birgit Beumers (Bristol): A journey through the Empire: Russian ArkNancy Condee (Pittsburgh): Alexandra5 Russian ResponsesSingle film reviewsMaya Turovskaya, How is it with me when every noise appals me? What hands are here? Petr Bagrov, On Music - However Strange Oleg Kovalov, We and The Lonely Voice Script-Sound-EditingYuri Arabov, The Director Becomes the Author Vladimir Persov, This is a Process Leda Semenova, Montage is the Final Approximation to the Idea WorksSergei Dobrotvorsky The City and the House Mikhail Trofimenkov Sokurov in the Struggle with Reality PLAKHOV Vlastiteli i tirany

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