This edition presents a shortened version of Valery Podoroga’s lectures he gave in 2014-2015 at the Moscow School of New Cinema. In this lecture course the author poses a question of the imaginary being the condition of cinematography’s existence and develops concepts of «Unconscious», «Dreams», «Screen», «the Other», «Violence», «Fear». Through the analysis of the moving image’s structure Valery Podoroga shows that said structure cannot be reduced to cinematographic techniques, ideologies and discourses, but rather is a manifestation of a more complex anthropological and psychoanalytical experience. The author analyses numerous cinematographic cases (such as Hidden and The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke, Battleship Potemkin and Strike by Sergei Eisenstein) and discusses the works of Sigmund Freud, Ernst Jünger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan. The central idea of the lectures is that cinematography is a visual symptom of the hidden imaginary experience. Moreover, this experience is the baseline of creative work (work-in-progress), embodied by the experimental cinema directors of the 20th-21st centuries.
ISBN: 978-5-9248-0218-3 Number of pages: 336 Design: Анна Сухова Type of cover: Hard cover Format: 145 х 235 mm