Sergei M. Eisenstein notes for a general history of cinema

An iconic figure in twentieth-century cinema, Sergei M. Eisenstein directed landmark films such as Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible and authored a vast body of theoretical texts. This is the first English-language edition of his recently rediscovered notes for a 'general history of cin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, author (author), Kleĭman, N. I. (Naum I.), editor (editor), Somaini, Antonio, editor (translator), Rosen, Margo Shohl, translator, Coxe, Brinton Tench, translator, Ryabchikova, Natalie, translator
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2016]
Colección:Film theory in media history.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.