Format:
1 Online-Ressource (545 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789048517114
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9048517117
Series Statement:
Film theory in media history
Content:
One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii and Ivan the Terrible. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on such key figures of the Western cinema as Nicolas Roeg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah and Akiro Kurosawa.This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein's writings is the first-ever English-language edition of his newly discovered notes for a general history of the cinema, a project he undertook in 1946-47 before his death in 1948. In his writings, Eisenstein presents the main coordinates of a history of the cinema without mentioning specific directors or films: what we find instead is a vast genealogy of all the media and of all the art forms that have preceded cinema's birth and accompanied the first decades of its history, exploring the same expressive possibilities that cinema has explored and responding to the same, deeply rooted, --urges˜ cinema has responded to. Cinema appears here as the heir of a very long tradition that includes death masks, ritual processions, wax museums, diorama and panorama, and as a medium in constant transformation, that far from being locked in a stable form continues to redefine itself. The texts by Eisenstein are accompanied by a series of critical essays written by some of the world's most qualified Eisenstein scholars
Note:
Foreword / Naum Kleiman -- Cinema as "dynamic mummification," history as montage : Einstein's media archaeology / Antonio Somaini -- Notes for a general history of cinema / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- What renders Daumier's art so cinematic for Eisenstein? / Ada Ackerman -- "The heritage we renounce" : Eisenstein in historio-graphy / François Albera -- The Notes for a general history of cinema and the dialectic of the Eistensteinian image / Luka Arsenjuk -- Act now!, or For an untimely Eistenstein / Nico Baumbach -- Pathos and praxis (Eisenstein versus Barthes) / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Eisenstein's absolutely wonderful, totally impossible project / Jane Gaines -- Dynamic typicality / Abe Geil -- Archaeology vs. paleontology : a note on Eisenstein's Notes for a general history of cinema / Vinzenz Hediger -- Point -- pathos -- totality / Mikhail Iampolski -- Distant echoes / Arun Khopkar -- "Synthesis" of the arts or "friendly cooperation" between the arts? : the general history of cinema according to Eistenstein / Pietro Montani -- Eisenstein's mummy complex : temporality, trauma, and a distinction in Eisenstein's Notes for a general history of cinema / Philip Rosen -- Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet models for the study of cinema, 1920s-1940s / Masha Salazkina and Natalie Ryabchikova.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089648440
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089642837
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9089642838
Language:
English
