(P/B) SERGEI EISENSTEIN SELECTED WORKS (VOLUME 2)

Παρουσίαση

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was not only one of the world's greatest film-makers; he was also one of the greatest theorists and teachers of film and one of the most original aesthetic thinkers of the twentieth century. Before the initial publication of "Selected Works", however, only fragmentary selections from his writings had been available in English and little had been published that made use of the wealth of material that had become available in Russian in the late Soviet period and beyond. "Selected Works", now published in three paperback volumes, has revolutionised our knowledge and understanding of Eisenstein as a writer and thinker.
The name of Sergei Eisenstein has long been synonymous with the idea of montage, as exemplified in his silent classics such as "The Strike" (1925), "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and "October" (1927). In the 1930s his style changed, partly to accommodate the arrival of sound, and his ideas on audio-visual counterpoint developed. Between 1937 and 1940 he elaborated his ideas on montage in a series of essays, most of which remained unpublished until after his death and which are published in English for the first time in "Towards a Theory of Montage". Collectively these essays present the essence of Eisenstein's thinking on cinema and aesthetics more generally and reveal him as one of the most significant philosophers of art of the twentieth century. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
MICHAEL GLENNY: AN APPRECIATION
NOTE ON SOURCES
INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
ON THE STORY OF 'MONTAGE 1937' Naum Kleiman
FOREWORD
1 Draft of 'Introduction'
Part One: Montage in Single Set-Up Cinema
2 Montage 1937
3 Montage and Architecture
4 Yermolova
Part Two: Montage in Multiple Set-Up Cinema
5 Laocoon
6 Pushkin the Montageur
'The Battle against the Pechenegs' and 'Poltava'
The Iron Cannon-Balls
Part Three: Sound-Film Montage
7 [Rhythm]
8 The Girl like a Ray of Light'
9 On Colour
10 Unity in the Image
11 Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' - the Races
12 Montage 1938
13 Vertical Montage
NOTES
INDEX