Introduction

Poetry and Cinema

Elizabeth A. Papazian and Eric Zakim

Part One: Voice

1. The Voice of Poetry: Marlen Khutsiev’s Ilyich’s Gate

Viktoria Paranyuk

2. Where Are Those Who Take Pride in Hindustan? Socialist Poetry as Feminist Critique in Sahir Ludhianvi’s Poetry and Song Lyrics

Krupa Shandilya

3. African Auteurism and its Decolonial Discontents: Reconnecting with the Griot Poetry System

Lani Akande

4. Jean Epstein’s Cinepoetics of Queer Affects

Christophe Wall-Romana

Part Two: Rhyme

5. From a Dog’s Perspective: The Poetic Lens of Matteo Garrone’s Dogman

Silvia Carlorosi

6. Poetic Documentary and Soviet Film Theory of the Long 1960s

Raisa Sidenova

7. Iurii Illienko’s Poetic Modernism: A Well for the Thirsty as Celluloid Manifesto

Olga Kim

Part Three: Syntax

8. Texture, Poetry, and Faktura in Soviet Cinema of the 1960s

Elizabeth A. Papazian

9. Stillness in Motion: T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” and Barbara Hammer’s Still Point

Sarah Keller

10. “The Fusion of Feeling and Scenery” and “Observing Things through Things”: Cinematic Ideorealm and Film Aesthetics

Kiki Tianqi Yu

11. From Russia with Formalism? Maya Deren’s Vertical Poetics of Cinema

Eric Zakim

Part Four: Rhythm

12. Adapting the Shahnameh: Cinema of Epic Poetry as World Heritage

Masha Salazkina

13. Don’t Shoot the Poet: Vittorio Cottafavi’s Television of Poetry

Roberto Dainotto

14. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange: The Ukrainian Poetic Essay Film as Collective Therapy

Vitaly Chernetsky

15. A Poetics of Displacement: Zabriskie Point

Karla Oeler