Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema

The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means—that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time through coherent argument, Nariman Skakov proposes; rather, he presents it, and the viewer experiences the argument. The Cinema of Tarkovsky explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema—from Ivan's...

Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best First Monograph Award In A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980. Damiens combines a detailed analysis of key works such as Forest People (1928), Igdenbu (1930),...