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Author DeBlasio, Alyssa, author

Title The filmmaker's philosopher : Merab Mamardashvili and Russian cinema / Ayssa DeBlasio
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : Edinburgh University Press ; Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- INTRODUCTION The Freest Man in the USSR -- CHAPTER 1 Alexander Sokurov's Demoted (1980): Consciousness as Celebration -- CHAPTER 2 Ivan Dykhovichnyi's The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of Idleness -- CHAPTER 3 Dmitry Mamuliya's Another Sky (2010): The Language of Consciousness -- CHAPTER 4 Alexei Balabanov's The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death o
CHAPTER 5 Alexander Zeldovich's Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the Ear -- CHAPTER 6 Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze's The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor fo -- CONCLUSION Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of Fi -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Exploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation - including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mamardashvili, Merab
SUBJECT Mamardashvili, Merab fast
Subject Motion pictures -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Philosophy in motion pictures.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Motion pictures
Philosophy in motion pictures
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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