Sobolev, Olga (2024) A Room and a Half and the art of poetic cinema. In: Andrew, Joe, Hodgson, Katharine, Reid, Robert and Smith, Alexandra, (eds.) Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture. Brill Nijhoff (Firm), Leiden, 306 - 330. ISBN 9789004708006
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A Room and a Half (2009) is a feature film directed by Andrei Khrzhanovskii, which traces a journey into the artistic world and the early years of Joseph Brodsky. Loosely based on Brodsky’s eponymous essay, the film offers a fictionalized account of the poet’s memoirs, which are creatively explored and enriched by materials taken from his interviews, poetry, and original drawings. By focusing on the polystylistic formal features of Khrzhanovskii’s work the chapter analyzes the film within the framework of poetic cinema, used in Viktor Shklovskii’s sense of the term. Apart from exploring and interpreting the conceptual platform of Brodsky’s oeuvre, the film, arguably, stretches the limits of biographical discourse by conducting a creative dialogue with the viewer on broader metaphysical questions, concerning the reflective and reproductive power of memory, familial love, and existential choices.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 Koninklijke Brill |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures P Language and Literature > PS American literature P Language and Literature > PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2025 09:12 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2025 20:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128583 |
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