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Alexander Dovzhenko's Cinematic Visions
Get PDFDEATH, BIRTH ORDER AND ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO'S CINEMATIC VISIONS "What man shall live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave?" -- Psalms 89: 48 ALEXANDER Dovzhenko (1894-1956), one of the pioneers of Soviet filmmaking in the 1920s, created a cinematic universe with three types of death. His villains died "grotesquely," but his heroes experienced "beautiful deaths, without suffering."(1) The filmmaker considered only one type of death an absolute evil: the "senseless death", a category which included "the victims of war."(2) But for Dovzhenko, the loss of life in his films never became the final conclusion. As exemplified by the grandfather's death scene in Earth, dying constituted an integral part of the great chain of life.(3) Dovzhenko created these interpretations specifically for the screen. His treatment of death did not express his true reaction to the end of life,..
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. By Serhii Plokhy . New York: Basic Books, 2015. xxiv, 395 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Chronology. Glossary. Index. Maps. $29.99, hard bound.
No full textPost-Communist Ukraine. By Bohdan Harasymiw. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2002. xiv, 469 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. 24.99, paper.
No full textRe-examining Dovzhenko's Political Environment: A Response to Riley
No full textJohn Riley \'A (Ukrainian) Life in Soviet Film: Liber\'s _Alexander Dovzhenko_\' _Film-Philosophy_, vol. 7 no. 31, September 200
Ukraine: The Search for a National Identity. Ed. Sharon L. Wolchik and Volodymyr Zviglyanich. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xxii, 310 pp. Notes. Index. Tables. Map. 29.95, paper.
No full textMigration, Displacement, and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia. By Hilary Pilkington. New York: Routledge, 1998. 252p. 27.99 paper.
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Imagining Ukraine: Regional Differences and the Emergence of an Integrated State Identity, 1926-1994
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