| Description |
xv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
1. A Life in Cinema. From Theatre to Cinema. The Silent Films. Europe, Hollywood, and Mexico. Projects and Problems. Triumph and Decline. The Particularities of Method -- 2. Monumental Heroics: The Silent Films. Toward Plotless Cinema. Strike. Potemkin. October. Old and New. A Note on Versions of Eisenstein's Silent Films -- 3. Seizing the Spectator: Film Theory in the Silent Era. Between Theory and Practice. Agitation as Excitation. Montage in Theatre and Film. Film Language and Intellectual Cinema. Film Form as Dialectics. The Eclectic Modernist -- 4. Practical Aesthetics: Pedagogy. Structure and Style: The Episode. Structure and Style: From Episode to Work. Assaulting the Eye -- 5. Cinema as Synthesis: Film Theory, 1930-1948. From Agitprop Formalism to Socialist Realism. Conceptions of Psychological Activity. Film Form: Organic Unity. Montage: The Musical Analogy Revisited. Pathos and Ecstasy. A Mature Poetics -- 6. History and Tragedy: The Late Films. Alexander Nevsky |
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Ivan the Terrible -- 7. The Making and Remaking of Sergei Eisenstein. Legend in Life. The Assimilation into Orthodoxy. The Exemplary Modernist. Eisenstein Our Contemporary |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Directing |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Notes |
Includes filmography: p. <289>-292 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-309) and index |
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Includes filmography: pages [289]-292 |
| Subject |
Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Silent films -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
92045678 |
| ISBN |
0674131371 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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067413138X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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