Filmmaker's Philosopher
Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema
Published on 27. September 2019
218 pages
978-1-4744-4450-7 (ISBN)
Description
Known as the 'Georgian Socrates' of Soviet philosophy, Merab Mamardashvili was a defining personality of the late-Soviet intelligentsia. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught required courses in philosophy at Russia's two leading film schools, helping to educate a generation of internationally prolific directors. 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. This multidisciplinary study offers an innovative way to think about film, philosophy and the philosophical potential of the moving image.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2019
Edinburgh University Press
€111.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
- 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
