Modalities of the long take in the era of late socialism : Miklós Jancsó, Sergei Parajanov, Andrei Tarkovsky (1956-1986)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the years between 1935 and 1975, a tangible transformation takes place in certain films of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. What was once the nationally-venerated cinema of rapid-fire montage under directors such as Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov becomes the slow, single-take study of individuals and their environments. At the same time, a parallel progression of the history of the Soviet Union and the countries comprising the Eastern Bloc occurs. With the death of Lenin comes the waning hopes of world-wide revolution, the rise of Stalinism and its monumental betrayal of the Soviet People, and social and economic woes as the Soviet Union attempts and fails to integrate itself into a capitalist world system under Brezhnev. The overtly-didactic essence of montage cinema, then, makes way for its obverse: narrative and political ambiguity introduced by the long take, and viewers who must fend for themselves. This dissertation examines three filmmakers whose employment of the long take -- the realist aesthetic par excellence -- both assists and complicates our understanding of the rich historical contexts from which they emerge. This comparative analysis of the work of Miklós Jancsó, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Sergei Parajanov situates the long take at its core and will reveal the multiple ways the device as trope is used to articulate the emerging, post-Stalinist subject, the ambiguous space of criticism, and the illusion of revolution as the antidote to the horrors of Stalinism.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Jakobsen, Kiersten |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
| Primary advisor | Levi, Pavle |
| Thesis advisor | Levi, Pavle |
| Thesis advisor | Bukatman, Scott, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Skakov, Nariman, 1978- |
| Thesis advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
| Advisor | Bukatman, Scott, 1957- |
| Advisor | Skakov, Nariman, 1978- |
| Advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kiersten Jakobsen. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Kiersten Cray Jakobsen
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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