Poetry and Film: Artistic Kinship Between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry and Film: Artistic Kinship Between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky
Author: Kitty Hunter Blair
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781849762496

Andrei Tarkovsky is widely regarded as one of the most significant filmmakers of modern times. Fundamental to his practice are the poems that his father, Arsenii, created. They resonate through many of the films, and offer levels of meaning which lie hidden to the unknowing eye. For the first time this book presents not only accurate and beautiful renditions of these poems in English, but also a penetrating and illuminating presentation of the creative relationship between father and son that informed so much of Andrei Tarkovsky's work.--Tate Publishing.

A Purified Silver

A Purified Silver
Author: Joseph Nakpil
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

Russian director Andrey Tarkovsky is regarded as an unusual force in the history of cinema. Andrey's father, the poet-translator Arseny Tarkovsky, has yet to share his son's fame in the English-speaking world. Notwithstanding, Arseny's poetry was a catalyst for his son's cinematic vision as evident by the use of the father's poetry in a number of Andrey's films, a topic of growing interest as Arseny becomes more and more known outside of Russia. Besides a handful of short writings, however, no critical analyses exist which explore the usage of Arseny's poetry in Andrey's 1975 film, The Mirror, his most personal work. In regard to the greater discussion of Andrey and his poetic influence on cinema, the poetry of Andrey's father Arseny, I propose, was a mnemonic source of cinematic inspiration, subject matter, and structure for this film; this same source acts as a constant son-to-father, artist-to-artist dialogue, and places both Andrey and Arseny in the canon of Russian poetic tradition. This thesis acts as an introductory discussion of the poems in The Mirror and the artistic, poetic, even emotional connection between father and son. In addition to the respective biographies of both artists, information on their father-son relationship, and production history of the film, I present analyses of all four Arseny Tarkovsky poems featured in The Mirror, a scene-by-scene analysis of their use in the film, and I critically engage with past scholarship on the subject.

A History of Russian Literature

A History of Russian Literature
Author: Andrew Kahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 976
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192549529

Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day.The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular bring out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time-range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.

Time Regained

Time Regained
Author: Delia Ungureanu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501355805

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields of world literature and world cinema have developed on parallel but largely separate tracks, with little recognition of their underlying similarities and the ways that each can learn from the other. Time Regained does not move from literature to cinema, but exists simultaneously in both fields. The 7 filmmakers selected here, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Raúl Ruíz, Wong Kar Wai, Stephen Daldry, and Paolo Sorrentino, are themselves also writers or people with literary training, and they produce a new type of world cinema thanks to their understanding of the world simultaneously through literature and film. In the process, their films produce new readings of literary texts that world literature studies wouldn't have been able to achieve with its own instruments. Time Regained examines how filmmakers build on literature to reconfigure the world as a landscape of dreams and how they use film to reinvent the narrative techniques of the authors on whom they draw. The selected filmmakers draw inspiration from French surrealists, modernists Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Marguerite Yourcenar, and predecessors such as Dante and Cao Xueqin. In the process, these filmmakers cross the borders between film and literature, nation and world, dream and reality.

Plotinus and the Moving Image

Plotinus and the Moving Image
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004357165

Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson’s and Deleuze’s time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging “Cinema of Contemplation.” Plotinus' search for the "intelligible" that can be grasped neither by sense perception nor by merely logical abstractions leads to a fluent way of seeing. Parallels that had so far never been discussed are made plausible. This book is a milestone in the philosophy of film. Contributors are: Cameron Barrows, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Steve Choe, Stephen Clark, Vincenzo Lomuscio, Tony Partridge, Daniel Regnier, Giannis Stamatellos, Enrico Terrone, Sebastian F. Moro Tornese and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.

Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective

Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Author: Adams Bodomo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027246440

Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe. An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by Liliana Sikorska and Shin-ichi Morimoto establish the scope and stakes of the book as a whole. Chapters by Eri Ohashi, Ruth Karachi Benson Oji, Liliane Hodieb, Zheng Yang, Zhifang Li, and Wanwarang Softic investigate cultural diversity in film. Chapters by Mai Hussein, Wang Chutong, and Darja Zorc Maver offer insights into the linguistic and literary creativity of diasporic and immigrant communities, and a new global context for German literature is developed in chapters by Ekaterina Riabykh, Muharrem Kaplan, and Tomás Espino Barrera. Appealing to scholars, researchers, and students, this interdisciplinary work sheds light on the complexities of our globalized world. Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a valuable addition to the field, offering fresh perspectives on language, culture, and identity.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky
Author: Robert Bird
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781861893420

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.

Tarkovsky

Tarkovsky
Author: Maĭi︠a︡ Iosifovna Turovskai︠a︡
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1989
Genre: Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN: 9780571147090

Attempting to convey the cultural milieu from which Tarkovsky comes, the author of this book, a Russian film critic, had personally known Tarkovsky since the very beginning of his career. She has had access to the archives of Mosfilm Studios where the early drafts and notes on his films are kept.

Sculpting in Time

Sculpting in Time
Author: Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1989-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780292776241

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

Tarkovsky and His Time

Tarkovsky and His Time
Author: Shusei Nishi
Publisher: Alt-arts LLC
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Concise, but objectively portrayed biography of a great Russian film director. Based on literary and visual documents recently published in Russia and author's long-term research on Russian cinema and culture,this book presents little known facts and aspects of Tarkovsky's life and his creation. Reading this book you can follow, how social, cultural and political situations in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to 1980s had influenced on him, how his belief in Film Art had been formed and what kind of difficulties he had to face in making films and so on. Here is a life of not only a cinematographic genius, but also of a flesh and blood human, who didn't fear his Destiny. This is an English supplemented and Revised edition of the same title published in Japanese on April 4, 2011. The Japanese first edition was selected by Association of Libraries in Japan as one of the books appropriate for archive in public libraries. Table of Content PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION PREFACE TO ENGLISH REVISED EDITION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING Preparatory Period for Creation Awaking to The Beauty of Music Confusion to The Future Film School and First Marriage CHAPTER II: TO THE FILM INDUSTRY "Thaw" And Awareness of The Mission Sudden Glory As One of "The 1960s" "Collaborators" The Itinerancy of "Andrei Rublev" CHAPTER III: ART AND LIFE The Passion of Andrei I The Passion of Andrei I I "The Era of Stagnation" And Prosperity of Film Industry "Solaris" and Peripeteia of Life Intersection of Refrection and Creation Awareness as an Intelligentsia and Isolation CHAPTER IV: DISILLUSIONMENT AND RELEASE "The Zone is Life" Russians in Italy Reason for Asylum Release by Faith AFTERWORD REFERENCES