One of the last representatives of a brand of serious; high-art cinema; Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history; power; memory; kinship; death; the human soul; and the responsibility of the artist. Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films (broaching many of his documentaries in the process); this volume unearths a vision of Sokurovs films as equally mournful and passionate; intellectual; and sensual; and also identifies in them a powerful; if discursively repressed; queer sensitivity; alongside a pattern of tensions and paradoxes. This book thus offers new keys to understand the lasting and ever-renewed appeal of the Russian directors Janus-like and surprisingly dynamic cinema -- a deeply original and complex body of work in dialogue with the past; the present and the future.
#4129506 in eBooks 2014-02-15 2014-02-15File Name: B00H7JR97O
Review
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Historical errorBy Raymond TurmellePage 58 in "Ascent of Mount Washington via the Railway." Author states "no person is known to have been injured upon it; nor has any serious accident ever taken place along its line." In 1929; Old Peppersass was descending the track; a pinion gear broke and derailed the engine which overturned killing one person. In 1967; a descending train climbed over an improperly place section of track; the engine fell of the track and the coach careened down the track for about 500 feet and fell over killing 8 people; 3 of which were children. Two were husband and wife from Dover; N.H.13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. "A"...History of the Boston Maine RailroadBy The Rail HystorianAttractively formatted; well organized and containing crisp BW images; A History of the Boston Maine Railroad (Exploring New Hampshires Rugged Heart by Rail) is unfortunately somewhat less than its title promises. While author Dr. Bruce Heald has created an organized presentation of disparate information; photographs and anecdotes from the Boston Maine Railroad Historical Society archives; these tantalizing threads fail weave a cohesive historical tapestry of an otherwise unique New England railroad.Beyond a brief overview of well known 19th century political and corporate amalgamations that forged the Boston Maine System; readers may find interest in (unfortunately incomplete) chapters on New Hampshires logging railroads and a first-hand employee account of operating the BM Snow Trains in the 1930s and 1940s. The balance of material; organized by route; offers little more than a narrative describing town-to-town pastoral topography and non-railroad social and historical highlights that appear to have been extracted from BM travel guides of the 19th Century.Those new to the BM and New Hampshire region may find the work an interesting introduction; however; those expecting a connected history of the facilities; train services and accomplishments of the Boston Maine Railroad to the New Hampshire countryside should look elsewhere.
