Solaris

Bould, Mark

Authors

Mark Bould Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Film and Literature

Abstract

Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick to embrace the image of Tarkovsky as a transcendent artist rising above the politics of the Soviet film industry and the trappings of genre to produce personal works of art.

Going against such currents, Mark Bould instead treats Solaris as the product of a genre as well as the work of a skilled film-maker. He teases out Tarkovsky's fascination with Stanis?aw Lem, on whose novel the film was based, and also considers Steven Soderbergh's 2002 adaptation.

Lively and revealing, Bould's examination situates Solaris within the Russian and global cultures of the fantastic, to which Tarkovsky contributed three major science fiction films.

Citation

Bould, M. (2014). Solaris. London: BFI Palgrave

Book Type	Authored Book
Acceptance Date	Feb 7, 2014
Online Publication Date	Oct 7, 2017
Publication Date	Oct 31, 2014
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Series Title	BFI Film Classics
ISBN	9781844578054
Keywords	Solaris, Tarkovsky, science fiction, sf
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Publisher URL	https://shop.bfi.org.uk/solaris-bfi-film-classics.html
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