(P/B) SERGEI EISENSTEIN SELECTED WORKS (VOLUME 3)

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.
In the period covered by this volume, which follows on from Volume 1: Writings 1922-34 and parallels Volume 2: Towards a Theory of Montage, Eisenstein's film-making ran into the difficulties generated by the Soviet authorities' increasingly restrictive definition of Socialist Realism, by the show trials and the purges, the Second World War, and the post-war proclamation of rigid cultural orthodoxy by Stalin's henchman, Andrei Zhdanov.
In this volume, we experience Eisenstein's reaction to this hostile environment, as film-maker, theorist and teacher, from his public obeisance over Bezhin Meadow to his private defiance with Ivan the Terrible. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION
ABBREVIATIONS
-1934
1. Theatre and Cinema
-1935
2. Speeches to the All-Union Creative Conference of Soviet Filmworkers
3. The Truth of Our Epoch
4. Wolves and Sheep: The Director and the Actor
5. The Battleship 'Potemkin' 1925. From the Screen to Life
6. Happiness
1. To the Magician of the Pear Orchard
8. Bolsheviks Do Laugh (Thoughts on Soviet Comedy)
-1936
9. Teaching Programme for the Theory and Practice of Direction. How to Teach Direction
-1937
10. The Mistakes of Bezhin Meadow
11. From the History of the Making of the Film "Alexander Nevsky"
12. An Image of Great Historical Truth and Realism
-1938
13. Alexander Nevsky and the Rout of the Germans
14. My Subject is Patriotism
-1939
15. We Serve the People
-1940
16. The Problems of the Soviet Historical Film
17. The Incarnation of Myth
18. Twenty Years
-1941
19. The Heirs and Builders of World Culture
20. Cinema Against Fascism
-1942
21. "Ivan the Terrible": A Film about the Sixteenth-century Russian Renaissance
22. Dickens, Griffith and Ourselves
-1943/4
23. A Few Words about My Drawings
24. Charlie the Kid
-1945
25. In Close-Up
26. Mr Lincoln by Mr Ford
27. How I Became a Director
-1946/7
28. About Ivan Pyriev
29. Communist Party Central Committee Decree on the Film "A Great Life"
30. Stalin, Molotov and Zhdanov on "Ivan the Terrible", Part Two
31. The People of One Film
32. From Lectures on Music and Colour in "Ivan the Terrible"
33. The Audience as Creator
34. "One and Indivisible" (Thoughts on the History of Soviet Cinema)
35. Ever Onwards! (Instead of a Postscript)
NOTES
INDEX