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OverviewSwedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The “songs” of the film’s title refer to Andersson’s artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty-six tableaux—long, deep-focus shots with a still camera, mostly in studio settings, using older visual tricks such as trompe l’oeil. The tableaux showcase seemingly trivial tragicomic situations designed to provoke thoughts about existential guilt, broken relationships, and the failure of social institutions to treat people as human beings. Lindqvist draws from interviews with Andersson and his team that provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made and investigates its philosophical and artistic influences, providing a nuanced reading of a film that has both befuddled and entranced its viewers. This first book-length study in English of Andersson’s work considers his aesthetic agenda and the unique methods that have become hallmarks of his filmmaking, as well as his firm belief in film’s revolutionary function as social critique. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ursula LindqvistPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.10cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9780295998244ISBN 10: 0295998245 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 June 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | A Troublesome Avant-Gardist Stages a Comeback 1. Aesthetics: Film as Art 2. Production: Film as Industry 3. Intermediality: Film, Poetry, Painting, Music 4. Humanism: Film as Philosophy and Social Critique Epilogue | Songs Carried On Appendix | Roy Andersson’s Eclectic Oeuvre Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""[O]ne of the greatest strengths of this book is how Lindqvist maintains a lively conversational style that engages the reader. Further, that so much of her book is based on personal interviews and archival material is both a testament to the depth of the background research and perhaps the book's most impressive quality.""" [O]ne of the greatest strengths of this book is how Lindqvist maintains a lively conversational style that engages the reader. Further, that so much of her book is based on personal interviews and archival material is both a testament to the depth of the background research and perhaps the book's most impressive quality. -- (01/01/2020) Author InformationUrsula Lindqvist is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies and film and media studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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