Description: Further DetailsTitle: Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”Condition: NewEAN: 9780295998251ISBN: 9780295998251Publisher: University of Washington PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/01/2016Item Height: 191mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 227gAuthor: Ursula LindqvistLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Contemplating the Art of ExistenceISBN-10: 0295998253Description: Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The “songs” of the film’s title refer to Andersson’s artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty-six tableaux—long, deep-focus shots with a still camera, mostly in studio settings, using older visual tricks such as trompe l’oeil. The tableaux showcase seemingly trivial tragicomic situations designed to provoke thoughts about existential guilt, broken relationships, and the failure of social institutions to treat people as human beings. Lindqvist draws from interviews with Andersson and his team that provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made and investigates its philosophical and artistic influences, providing a nuanced reading of a film that has both befuddled and entranced its viewers. This first book-length study in English of Andersson’s work considers his aesthetic agenda and the unique methods that have become hallmarks of his filmmaking, as well as his firm belief in film’s revolutionary function as social critique.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Films & TVBook Series: Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Title: Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
EAN: 9780295998251
ISBN: 9780295998251
Release Date: 06/01/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: Contemplating the Art of Existence
ISBN-10: 0295998253
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor : Contemplating the Art of Existence
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Europe / Scandinavia, Film / Direction & Production
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 6.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ursula Lindqvist
Subject Area: Performing Arts, History
Item Length: 7.4 in
Item Width: 7 in
Series: Nordic Film Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
