Filmmaker’s Philosopher

Alyssa DeBlasio is Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College, where she also contributes to the Film Studies and Philosophy programs.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction: The Freest Man in the USSRChapter One: Alexander Sokurov’s Demoted (1980): Consciousness as CelebrationChapter Two: Ivan Dykhovichnyi’s The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of IdlenessChapter Three: Dmitry Mamuliya’s Another Sky (2010): The Language of ConsciousnessChapter Four: Alexei Balabanov’s The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death of FormChapter Five: Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the EarthlyChapter Six: Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze’s The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor for ConsciousnessConclusion: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of FilmBibliographyAppendix

The Filmmaker’s Philosopher is a highly effective text that handles complex, ever-elusive philosophical thinking with great confidence and clarity. It will undoubtedly be useful to a great variety of researchers, from Mamardashvili scholars to film-philosophers who are yet to discover his invigorating ideas.