620 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

In the literature of the 19th-20th centuries, and later in cinema, there are often plots where a visual image - for example, a painting or sculpture - becomes an equal protagonist in the narrative. The characters see the image and enter into complex, sometimes even conflictual relationships with it: love, fear, obsession, etc. Sergei Zenkin's book talks about such images, deeply embedded in the narrative and called intradiegetic by the author. He turns to literary and cinematic masterpieces from Pushkin and Wilde to Fellini and Antonioni to show how the development of these images in contemporary culture can indicate important changes in the techniques and objectives of artistic storytelling, as well as in the practices of the visual arts.

Russian

October 05, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.