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SHOOTING ARCHE-TYPES. SACRED IN MOTION, OR SERGE PARAJANOV’S CINEMATIC ARCHEOGRAPHY
The study presents the main concepts of Parajanov’s cinematic poetics, which is deeply bound with the filmmaker’s Weltanschauung: a mixture of ancient, medieval and modern civilizational models, of Oriental and Western, Christian, Islamic and pagan patterns of behaviour, of mythic-archaic, soviet and postmodern anthropological models, that melt together in harmony only in the unique topos of Transcaucasia.
Keywords: immersion into myth, language of stage convention, Byzantine man, the invisible war, postmodernism, cinegenic arche-types, sacred in motion, cinematic archeography
References:
Freilikh 1992 – Freilikh S. The theory of cinema from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky. Moscow, 1992. In Russian.
Katanyan 2001 – Katanyan V. Price of eternal feast. Parajanov. Moscow, 2001. In Russian.
Parajanov 2001 – Parajanov S. Confession. Saint-Petersburg, 2001. In Russian.
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Issue: 2, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: RESEARCH REPORTS
Pages: 29 — 43
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