{"title":"Nariman Skakov","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks by Nariman Skakov delve into the intricate intersections of film and cultural studies, offering insightful analyses that challenge traditional perspectives. Readers can expect thoughtful explorations of cinema’s role in shaping and reflecting cultural identities, exemplified by studies like \u003cem\u003eThe Cinema of Tarkovsky\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSkakov's writing bridges arts and culture with critical theory, inviting readers to reconsider established narratives within the cinematic world. His approach is both scholarly and accessible, making complex ideas engaging for those interested in film, art, and broader cultural dialogues.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"reorientalism-by-nariman-skakov-9780231218016","title":"Reorientalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is commonly believed that Stalinism ended a vibrant period in Soviet avant-garde art and literature. The triumph of socialist realism, in this view, curtailed experimentation with aesthetic form and replaced it with a call for clarity, accessibility, and ideological conformity. But Stalin’s formula “national in form, socialist in content” gave artists an opening for officially sanctioned formal innovation—as long as it drew on the national cultures of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNariman Skakov offers a new way to understand Soviet modernism, showing how writers and artists looked to the East to renew avant-garde experimentalism under Stalin. He traces how figures such as Victor Shklovsky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Dziga Vertov, and Sergei Eisenstein responded to the Soviet state’s ideological demands by engaging with the traditions of the new socialist republics in Central Asia. The concept of national form gave these artists a sanctuary for aesthetic innovation, yet this experimentation relied on exoticization of the “strangeness” of the Soviet East and a fascination with ethnic others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecasting Soviet aesthetics from the vantage point of Central Asia, Skakov rethinks orientalism and its relationship to socialism. Challenging conventional narratives of the fate of the Soviet avant-garde, \u003ci\u003eReorientalism\u003c\/i\u003e provides a deeply original decentering of modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46792708849900,"sku":"9780231218016","price":118.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8236863482270.jpg?v=1757009341"},{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-tarkovsky-by-nariman-skakov-9781848856301","title":"The Cinema of Tarkovsky","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means—that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time through coherent argument, Nariman Skakov proposes; rather, he presents it, and the viewer experiences the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cinema of Tarkovsky\u003c\/em\u003e explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema—from \u003cem\u003eIvan's Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e (1962) to \u003cem\u003eSacrifice\u003c\/em\u003e (1986). Dreams, visions, mirages, memories, revelations, reveries, and delusions are phenomena which present alternative spatio-temporal patterns; they disrupt the linear progression of events and create narrative discontinuity. Each chapter is dedicated to the discussion of one of Tarkovsky's seven feature films, and in each, one of these phenomena functions as a refrain. Skakov discusses the influence of the flow of and lapses in space and time on the viewer's perception of the Tarkovskian cinematic universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe opens and closes his original and fascinating book on Tarkovsky's cinema by focusing on the phenomenon of time that is discussed extensively by the filmmaker in his main theoretical treatise \u003cem\u003eSculpting in Time\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as in a number of interviews and public lectures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471736619244,"sku":"9781848856301","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781848856301-the-cinema-of-tarkovsky.jpg?v=1775251636"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/nariman-skakov.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}