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- Title
MODERNITY CRISIS AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN TARKOVSKY'S NOSTALGHIA AND MIRROR.
- Authors
ÇOLAK, Metin
- Abstract
This article examines the modernity crisis and the phenomenon of nostalgia in the works of the dis- tinctive Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky's films Nostalghia (1983) and Mirror (1975). Within this perspective this study not only investigates the term, nostalgia, and its typology in the films, but also focuses on the socio-cultural and political refractions in the background that shape the director's use of the concept. Tarkovsky's cinema, particularly his last films, reflects the consequences of modernity crisis. In this regard his films Mirror and Nostalghia play an important role. This paper suggests that the film Nostalghia was made by the director in Italy in order to reveal this crisis in the case of a poet. The film, Nostalghia, removes the frontiers that developed in the Mirror, and puts the phenomenon nostalgia in the centre of the modernity crisis. To analyse the relationships between modernity crisis and Tarkovsky's films, this study grounds its analytic perspectives on the qualitative-descriptive method. In this regard, the study will start with the general characteristics of Tarkovsky's cinema and examine the typology of nostalgia, and then focus on his Nostalghia. After a detailed analysis of Nostalghia within this perspective, the article will compare it to another of his films, the controversial Mirror, to examine the changes in the master's life.
- Subjects
NOSTALGHIA (Film); MIRROR (Film); TARKOVSKII, Andrei Arsen'evich, 1932-1986; MODERNITY in motion pictures; NOSTALGIA in motion pictures
- Publication
University Faculty of Communication Journal / Istanbul Üniversitesi Iletisim Fakültesi Hakemli Dergisi, 2013, Issue 44, p49
- ISSN
1302-633X
- Publication type
Article