1st Edition
Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema Music and Meaning from Solaris to The Sacrifice
Chapter 1: Interpreting Tarkovsky’s Cinema through its Music
Chapter 2: Bach at the Space Station: Diegetic Ambiguities and Multiplying Gaps in Solaris
Chapter 3: Memories, Dreams and Mysteries: Music and Dimensions of Human Experience in Mirror
Chapter 4: Beethoven Overcome: Transcendence and Utopia in Stalker
Chapter 5: Musical Offerings, Soothing Sounds and Sacrificial Acts: Managing the Nostalgia of Nostalghia
Chapter 6: The Voice of Truth: Liminal Music, Spiritual Authenticity and Gradual Awakening in The Sacrifice
Chapter 7: Music, Meaning and Troubled Utopias in Tarkovsky’s Cinema
Appendix: The Structure of Mirror
Biography
Tobias Pontara is Professor in Musicology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
