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Solaris

Bould, Mark

Authors

Mark Bould Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of 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 Stanisław 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.

Book Type Authored Book
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
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/810056
Publisher URL https://shop.bfi.org.uk/solaris-bfi-film-classics.html
Related Public URLs https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/solaris-9781844578054/
Contract Date Feb 7, 2014