’The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox’ book trailer

A conversation between Professor Dominique Nasta (ULB) and Jeremi Szaniawski about his book ’The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox’ (Wallflower Press, 2014). Camera: Vincent Dery Sound: Nathalie Torfs Editing: Jeremi Szaniawski Special Thanks: Michael Cramer, Jinseok Kang Praise for ’The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov’: “Certainly Sokurov’s work needs a popular general introduction, but it is rare for so thorough a volume as this by Jeremi Szaniawski to offer so thought-provoking and novel an interpretation at one and the same time. This exciting book is a marker with which all future students of Sokurov will have to come to terms; its accounts of cultural, political and literary contexts will be as illuminating to the non-specialist reader as its history of production will for film studies.“ - Fredric Jameson (Duke University) “Jeremi Szaniawski’s book is a universe unto itself: wise, learned, a sustained dream of the