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Genre cinema and cinemaSui Generis: Adrian Piotrovsky and cinema taxonomy
Robert Montgomery Bird
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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.