Andrei Tarkovsky's poetics of cinema
"If you look for a meaning and you'll miss everything that happens." Almost twenty-five years after the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the mystery of his films remains alive and well. Recent years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of film theorists, critics and philosophers taking up the challenge to decipher what these films actually mean. But what do these films actually show us? In this study Thomas Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky's later films to demonstrate the director's deceptively sophisticated approach to narrative film composition. Charting the stylistic i
eBook, English, 2010
Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2010