Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Battleship Potemkin ; October and Alexander Nevsky
Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Eisenstein on Disney
Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher: Drama
ISBN: 9780413196408
Category : Criticism & Analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Eisenstein, Cinema, and History
Author: James GoodwinPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062698
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Among early directors, Sergei Eisentein stands alone as the maker of a fully historical cinema. James Goodwin treats issues of revolutionary history and historical representation as central to an understanding of Eisentein's work, which explores two movements within Soviet history and consciousness: the Bolshevik Revolution and the Stalinist state. Goodwin articulates intersections between Eisentein's ideas and aspects of the thought of Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, and Bertolt Brecht. He also shows how the formal properties and filmic techniques of each work reveal perspectives on history . Individual chapters focus on Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, Old and New, projects of the 1930s, Alexander Nevsky, and Ivan the Terrible.
On the Detective Story
Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780857424907
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin, as well as, in the sound era, the historical epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible--he also was a theorist whose insights into the workings of film were so powerful that they remain influential for both filmmakers and scholars today. Seagull Books is embarking on a series of translations of key works by Eisenstein into English. On the Detective Story presents Eisenstein's elaborate study, in four essays and fragments, of the use of dialectical thinking in the creation of art and literature. Drawing on major works from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Balzac, Gogol, Mayakovsky, Dostoevsky, and more, and ranging from folk tales to contemporary detective stories, it shows the keenly analytic quality of Eisenstein's mind when it turned to questions of creative work.
Selected Works: Towards a theory of montage
Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A collection of writings and memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein.
The Short-Fiction Scenario
Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780857424891
Category : Film adaptations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a master-class turning a short story into an effective film ... analyses in painstaking detail two parallel scripts made out of the same story [Nikolai Shpikovsky's Banner (Znamia) as Leonid Leonov's Feast at Zhimunka (Pir v Zhirmunke)], and ... explains why one works better. [Also imagines at length adapting Ambrose Bierce's The Affair at Coulter's Notch. Describes excitation and compression of the plot through the use of imagery as found in: Honore Daumier's and Michelangelo's depiction of movement, and the works of writers Tolstoy, Edgar Lee Masters, Ford Madox Ford, and more]--
Eisenstein at Work
Author: Jay LeydaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Reel Middle Ages
Author: Kevin J. HartyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476608431
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's films in 1897, to a 1996 animated Hunchback of Notre Dame, film has offered not just fantasy but exploration of these roles so vital to the modern psyche. St. Joan has undergone the transition from peasant girl to self-assured saint, and Camelot has transcended the soundstage to evoke the Kennedys in the White House. Here is the first comprehensive survey of more than 900 cinematic depictions of the European Middle Ages--date of production, country of origin, director, production company, cast, and a synopsis and commentary. A bibliography, index, and over 100 stills complete this remarkable work.
A History of the Screenplay
Author: S. PricePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137315709
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical development. International in scope and placing emphasis on the development and variety of screenplay texts themselves, this book will be an important and innovative addition to the current literature.
Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History
Author: Evgeny DobrenkoPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748632433
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history. Cinema's role in the legitimization of Stalinism and the production of a new Soviet identity was enormous. Both Lenin and Stalin saw in this 'most important of arts' the most effective form of propaganda and 'organisation of the masses'. By examining the works of the greatest Soviet filmmakers of the Stalin era--Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler--the author explores the role of the cinema in the formation of the Soviet political imagination.