Zona

A book about a film about a journey to a room

Hardcover, 228 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2012 by Pantheon.

ISBN:
978-0-307-37738-8
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An in-depth, discursive, obsessive analysis of/speculation about the film Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.

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If you love Stalker and you're looking for a way to experience it again in a new way because there seem to be diminishing returns from just watching Stalker over and over again, this might be a good book to read. If you haven't seen Stalker or you're indifferent to it, I don't know what this book might do for you.

It bills itself as "a book about a film about a journey to a room," but most of it is "a book about a guy who writes a book about a film about a journey to a room."

I enjoyed it, except for the author's annoying resort to sloppily-laid-out footnotes in place of asides or meanders, which made for awkward reading and were an especially unharmonious crafting decision given the subject matter.

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