Repentance
"Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical work Repentance, made in Soviet Georgia, is the best know film of the perestroika and glasnost years. Due to its provocative depiction of the Stalin era and Stalin's place in the Soviet psyche, Repentance was originally shelved but ultimately released in 1986 to widespread popular and critical acclaim." "This Kinofile investigates the production, context and critical reception of the film and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema."-…
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- Full title :Repentance / Josephine Woll and Denise J. Youngblood.
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"Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical work Repentance, made in Soviet Georgia, is the best know film of the perestroika and glasnost years. Due to its provocative depiction of the Stalin era and Stalin's place in the Soviet psyche, Repentance was originally shelved but ultimately released in 1986 to widespread popular and critical acclaim." "This Kinofile investigates the production, context and critical reception of the film and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 115 pages : : illustrations ; : 18 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1860643957, 9781860643958
- oclc:ocm48428413
- LC Classification:PN1997.M649
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/72
Table of Contents
Introduction: 'The First Swallow of Perestroika' -- 1. 'The Content of the Form': Plot and Structure -- The First Framing Story -- The Second Framing Story -- The Flashback -- Return to the Second Framing Story -- The First Framing Story Revisited -- 2. Repentance: Frame Analysis -- 3. Signs and Symbols: Repentance's Stylistic Devices -- Anachronism -- Fantasy and Reverie -- Music -- Literary and Linguistic Quotation -- Filmic Techniques -- 4. The History That Is History -- Repentance in the Career of Tengiz Abuladze -- Repentance in the Context of the Times -- Repentance and Georgian History -- Repentance and Soviet History -- Repentance as 'History' -- Conclusion: 'The Dead Hand of the Past'.
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