BOOK GIVEAWAY The Cinema Of Alexander Sokurov
To coincide with the BFI Southbank’s season of Aleksandr (or Alexander as he is often known) Sokurov’s films, I.B.Tauris will giveaway copies of their new book, The Cinema Of Alexander Sokurov, to 5 lucky competition winners.
Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film, Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russia’s cultural history through a single, 90-minute take. Yet this film is but one milestone in the work of this versatile director. Since the 1990s, Sokurov’s films have had international recognition at film festivals and through foreign distribution.
In this, the first English-language book to cover Sokurov’s full oeuvre, leading scholars on Sokurov unravel his work on documentaries; his early films and literary adaptations; his trilogy on leaders focussing on the decaying body; his films on passing youth and approaching age; and, of course, Russian Ark. The book also provides samples of the major Russian-language studies of Sokurov’s films to provide the reader with an insight into Russian approaches to Sokurov.
For your chance to win, head to our facebook page here, and leave a comment on this competition preview (entitled ‘Alexander Sokurov Book Giveaway’), telling us about your favourite film produced in the Soviet Union and/or Russia. Please note: your comment must appear beneath the competition preview – comments/posts on the wall in general, or elsewhere, will not be counted. We will select winners at random (please ensure your facebook account is set-up to receive messages from non-friends, and that you check your account regularly so you can respond when we ask for your postal details to send out your prize). To make this competition even better, the first 3 people who can get 5 of their friends to like our facebook page and click like on their comment will win a DVD!
The closing date for this competition is 11th November 2011.
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