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Khrenov, N. A.
Sokurov’s ‘Faust’: Anatomy of Demonism
// Culture and Art.
2013. ¹ 2.
P. 190-206.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=62493
Khrenov, N. A. Sokurov’s ‘Faust’: Anatomy of Demonism
Abstract:
The article is devoted to a cinematographic
masterpiece caused by an attempt of a film director
Alexander Sokurov to use Goethe’s brilliant worktragedy
‘Faust’ –and to tell about the most nettlesome
issues of XX century related to formation of masses,
mass societies and, as a consequence, group leaders
and dictators. Alexander Sokurov’s film is not a screen
version of Goethe’s ‘Faust’ in the traditional meaning
of the word. It should seem that using Goethe’s tragedy
for sharing his thoughts on modern issues must lead
to superficial and vulgar interpretation of a classical
writing. But Sokurov’s idea to include his new film in
what he called ‘tetralogy’, i.e. a group of films devoted
to famous dictators of XX century (Vladimir Lenin, Adolf
Hitler and Hirohito) allowed to get a better insight
into Goethe’s plot and to understand why that Goethe
had such a difficult time writing that tragedy. If we
try to understand the primary intentions of Goethe, we
can find out the beginning of the demonism complex
in Western culture that very well explains the way we
perceive political leaders of XX century.
Keywords:
cultural studies, demonism, dictatorship, intertext, Faust’s culture, screen version, rationalism, postmodernism, transcendent, utopia and anti-utopia.
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