Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking

by Anne Nesbet

Overview

"Savage Junctures" provides fresh insights into Eisenstein's films and writings. It examines the multiple contexts within which his films evolved and Eisenstein's appropriation of all of world culture as his source. Like Eisenstein himself, Anne Nesbet is particularly interested in the possibilities of visual image making and each chapter addresses the problem of his image-based thinking from a different perspective. Each chapter also offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the films and writings that make up his oeuvre. This is a major new contribution to studies in Soviet cinema and culture and to the field of film studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845114183
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/29/2007
Series:	KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Anne Nesbet is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Program in Film at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface - Preface & Acknowledgments - Note on Transliteration - Introduction - Beyond Recognition: Strike and the Eye of the Abattoir - Fourth-Dimensional Medusa: Battleship Potemkin and the Construction of the Soviet Cinema Audience - Picture-Thinking: October and the Debris of Philosophy - Excavating The General Line: The Pleasures and Perils of Accumulation - Savage Thinking: The Sublime Surfaces of Eisenstein's Mexico - The Skeleton Dance: Animation, Terror and the Musical Comedy - Beyond Pleasure: Ivan and the 'Juncture of Beginning and End' - Conclusion: The Shape of Thinking - Notes - Bibliography - Index

Editorial Reviews

"Nesbit has done an admirable, thorough job of research."—Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2005

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