Genre cinema and cinema Sui Generis: Adrian Piotrovsky and cinema taxonomy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bird, Robert
• Is Part Of: New review of film and television studies. Volume 20:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 11
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Adrian Piotrovsky -- film genre -- Russian Formalism -- Soviet cinema; Motion pictures -- Evaluation -- Periodicals; Film criticism -- Periodicals; Television -- Periodicals; Television criticism -- Periodicals; 302.234
• DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2021.2005419
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-0309

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Although 'Towards a Theory of Cine-Genres' announces his interest in connecting film genre to the formal properties of the medium, Adrian Piotrovsky's thinking as a whole is marked by a fundamental ambivalence to genre. Placing this better-known essay within the overall development of his thinking on cinema reveals how Piotrovsky grappled with taxonomizing cinema and refined a vision for a Soviet filmmaking that moved beyond the limitations of genre.