Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Note on Transliteration and Translation ix
6. Introduction: The Freest Man in the USSR 1
7. 1. Alexander Sokurov’s Demoted (1980): Consciousness as Celebration 30
8. 2. Ivan Dykhovichnyi’s The Black Monk (1988): Madness, Chekhov, and the Chimera of Idleness 57
9. 3. Dmitry Mamuliya’s Another Sky (2010): The Language of Consciousness 78
10. 4. Alexei Balabanov’s The Castle (1994) and Me Too (2012): Kafka, the Absurd, and the Death of Form 100
11. 5. Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (2011): Tolstoy and Mamardashvili on the Infinite and the Earthly 124
12. 6. Vadim Abdrashitov and Alexander Mindadze’s The Train Stopped (1982): Film as a Metaphor for Consciousness 147
13. Conclusion: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless (2017): The Philosophical Image and the Possibilities of Film 160
14. Appendix 177
15. Bibliography 181
16. Index 196