Stalker Hoel Hardback Liverpool University Press 9781800348332

StalkerAuthor(s): Jon Hoel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800348332, 978-1800348332\nSynopsis\nFew filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovskys cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker [tel], is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker parallels its speculative elements with a harrowing narrative of human fragility and philosophy. It is as much a movie about the complexity of its characters as it is the mysteriousness of its labyrinthine landscape, the ambiguous Zone and its heart, the Room of Desire. It is at once a darkly nihilistic film, ominous and threatening, and yet also profoundly hopeful and at its core a story of true faith. This book attempts to unravel the films complexities, from its difficult production and through its many cinematic elements: its composition and cinematography, the many philosophies it engages with, its poet.